Frontal view of free-standing bronze statue of Hypermnestra (Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, inv. 5603, 3rd quarter of 1st century BC), with diagrams of peplos and measurements:
pencil sketch on paper
mounted
25.9 x 38.5 cm
[on sketch] 'one proof that the edge ABC is circular is that the acorn(?) B hangs the lowest the measure-ment 4.9 as this figure has no zone may be correct' (pencil note)
[on sketch] 'The length of the figure is' (pencil note)
[on sketch] 'ascertain if it be of this shape' (pencil note)
[key to measurements annotated in sketch and two diagrams] 'A / B / C / D / E' (pencil note)
Frontal view of free-standing bronze statue of Danaid (Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, inv. 5621, 3rd quarter of 1st century BC) [feet not depicted]:
pencil sketch on paper
mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 36.16, on loose page at end
Marble slabs of the Amazon frieze from the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus (London, British Museum, reg. 1847,0424.1 - BM Sculpture 1011 and reg. 1847,0424.2 BM Sculpture 1012, c. 350 BC):
[ink text] 'On the Egyptian Gods. / It is not easy to make a complete list of the / numerous gods that were worshipped in Egypt. / The priests were in the habit of increasing the / number in two ways; first by making a / second and third of the same name, with / some slight change of character, and secondly by / writing the names and characters of two and even / three to make a fourth. The more important / however are as follows. / Amun Ra, the god of Thebes who sits on his throne / in the sculpture R . In the group of statues / S he is embracing the king as his son.'
[pencil text]: 'Chem god San or Janus. / Nile carrying not water but harvest / figure half male half female / with lotus or lily on his head / Chonso with the moon on his head as seen / when two days x(?), the circular moon / within the horns of the new moon'