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Hector Horeau Watercolour - Dendera

Plan of the temple of Dendera:

  • watercolour
  • mounted
  • [on recto, left side] 'Les deux chambres non sculptées la niche l'est seulement'. (ink note)
  • [on recto, right side] 'les faces laterales sculptées jusqu'aux bayes A.B'. (ink note)
  • [on recto, bottom edge] 'NUBIE. R.O. PLAN DU TEMPLE DE DANDOUR. il y a une difference dans l'axe'. (ink note)
  • [on mount, verso] 'Vue et Plan du Temple de Dandour'. (ink note)
  • 22.1 by 31.3 cm

Hector Horeau Watercolour - Beit el-Wali

Relief scene from the sanctuary of the rock temple at Beit el-Wali in Nubia, depicting the young king Ramesses II suckled by the god Anukis at (40) and including some lines of hieroglyphic text. On the bottom right side is a small plan of the temple space:

  • watercolour
  • mounted
  • [on recto, top left] 'Beyt Oually, Le roi seigneur du monde soleil gardien de justice prenom de Rhamses II frere de Rhamses le grand'. (pencil note)
  • [on recto, left side] 'mur en coupe'. (pencil note)
  • [on recto, bottom left] 'Sur le parement O du plan le Roi Rhamses II (Sesostris) nourri par la déesse Anouké au 5e de l'exécution'. (pencil note)
  • [on recto, top right] 'Beyt oually R.O. ta mere anouké dame de Abidos ? nom de ville'. (pencil note)
  • [on mount, verso] 'Temple de Beyt Oually Peinture murale. Sésostris nourri par la déesse Anouké'. (ink note)
  • 28.1 by 34 cm

Hector Horeau Watercolour - el-Dakka

View of the temple at el-Dakka:

  • watercolour
  • mounted
  • [on recto, bottom edge] 'NUBIE.R.O. DAKKE'. (ink note)
  • [on mount, verso] 'Vue, Plan et Détails du Temple de Dakkeh'. (ink note)
  • 24.6 by 16.7 cm

Hector Horeau Watercolour - el-Dakka

Plan of the temple at el-Dakka

  • watercolour
  • mounted
  • [on recto, bottom edge] 'PLAN DU TEMPLE DE DAKKE OB.ons les Seuils du Pilone en granit A TIPHON B LION à terre C NAOS granit rose D FIGURE voir vue E LIONS bas relief'. (ink note)
  • [on recto, bottom right corner] 'NUBIE.R.O'. (ink note)
  • [on mount, verso] 'Vue, Plan et Détails du Temple de Dakkeh'. (ink note)
  • 24.6 by 34.3 cm

Hector Horeau Watercolour - Beni Hasan

Boats from Beni Hasan tomb relief scenes. On the upper half is a boat with several rowers and men at the bow steering, followed by another boat with a larger standing figure at the bow; the second boat on the right within the fourth register at (6) of the tomb of Khnumhotep (Tomb 3, Beni Hasan). The lower left side sketch shows the stern of a boat found on the left within the fifth register at (12) of the tomb of Amenemhat (Tomb 2, Beni Hasan), the lower right side sketch is a detailed boat from the right side within the sixth register at (15) also of the tomb of Amenemhat (Tomb 2, Beni Hasan):

  • watercolour
  • mounted
  • [on recto, top right] 'grand prêtre'. (pencil note)
  • [on recto, centre] 'culottes et robes blanches (probablement des pretres)', 'barque du defunt'. (pencil notes)
  • [on recto, bottom left] 'il y a parfois 2 gouvernails', 'corps mort'. (pencil notes)
  • [on recto, bottom right] 'cette surface listé en jaune ressemble à une bandiere (drapeau) ou rideau pr cacher les femmes lorsqu'elles ont besoin d'etre seule'. (pencil note)
  • [on recto, bottom right corner] 'BENI HASSAN'. (pencil note)
  • 21.6 by 15.7 cm

Hector Horeau Watercolour - Saqqara

View of Saqqara with the pyramids visible in the distance:

  • watercolour
  • mounted
  • [on recto, bottom left corner] 'Zaqqarah'. (ink note)
  • [on mount, bottom edge] 'Vue des Pyramides de Zaqqarah'. (pencil note)
  • [on mount, verso] '4. Pyramides de Zaqqarah'. (ink note)
  • 17.3 by 12.4 cm

Hector Horeau Drawing - Philae

Detail of a column capital from the Hathor temple at Philae, including faint notes of measurements:

  • ink drawing
  • mounted
  • [on mount, verso] 'Chapiteaux restaurés Temple de Vénus Athor'. (ink note)
  • 26.7 by 25.2 cm

George A. Hoskins Drawing - el-Kharga

Mythological scenes from the sanctuary area of the Amun temple at Hibis:

  • pencil drawing
  • mounted
  • small separate jacket of jackal headed figure under scene
  • [on recto, bottom left corner] 'South side 1st Chamber el Khargeh Oasis Magna p1. Left'. (pencil note)
  • 30.0 by 24.0 cm

George A. Hoskins Drawing - el-Kharga

Mythological scenes from the sanctuary area of the Amun temple at Hibis:

  • pencil drawing
  • mounted
  • [on recto, bottom left corner] 'South side 1st chamber p1 T el Khargeh Oasis magna Left'. (pencil note)
  • [on recto, top edge] 'I height of figures I', 'III between lines III'. (pencil notes)
  • 30.0 by 24.0 cm

George A. Hoskins Drawing - el-Kharga

Mythological scenes from the sanctuary area of the Amun temple at Hibis:

  • pencil drawing
  • mounted
  • [on recto, bottom left corner] 'South side 2d chamber p1 T el Khargeh Oasis magna Left'. (pencil note)
  • [on recto, top left corner] rough sketches of hieroglyph signs
  • 30.0 by 24.0 cm

Oliver Robert Gurney Collection

  • Gurney MSS
  • Collection
  • 1939-2001

Correspondence and notes relating to the geography of the Hittite Empire, Babylonian music, decipherment, and various other topics.

Gurney, Oliver Robert

George A. Hoskins Drawing - el-Kharga

View of the Islamic cemetery area:

  • pencil drawing
  • mounted
  • [on recto, top edge] '[...] p 2 View of el Khargah the tombs of the Sheakhs the cemetery of the Sheakhs' (pencil note)
  • [on recto, top right corner] 'v16'. (ink note)
  • [on recto, bottom left corner] '[...] el Khargah'. (pencil note)
  • 22.8 by 16.6 cm

George A. Hoskins Watercolour - Thebes, West Bank. Tomb TT 100

Three registers of relief scenes of a funerary procession from the passage area of the tomb of Rekhmire (TT100) at the west bank of Thebes, including a portion of a garden scene on the left side, and a lower register of male figures. Adjacent to this is a large representation of the god Osiris enclosed in a shrine:

  • watercolour
  • mounted
  • [on recto, bottom left corner] 'plate 4 Upper row plate 2'. (pencil note)
  • [on recto, bottom left corner] 'Upper row plate 2'. (ink note)
  • [on mount, bottom left corner] 'Tomb at Thebes contd'. (ink note)
  • 44.0 by 31.6 cm
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