[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'
Eurasian oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus) at Asyut:
watercolour
mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 033
17.4 x 12.1 cm
[on mount] 'Shot near the Nile.' (ink note)
[on mount] encircled '32' (pencil note)
[on verso of watercolour] 'Shot near Siut on the Nile. / '22 April 1843' (pencil note)
[on verso of watercolour] 'It has webbed feet and / the beak is very singular. / The size is about half as / large again as the Sterna / Nilotica' (pencil note)
A portrait of a woman and child in Upper Egypt; the woman carries the young child on her left shoulder and holds a small round vessel in her left hand; they stand in front of a raised bank with two palm trees beyond:
watercolour
mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 039, Lloyd MSS 041 and Lloyd MSS 042
8.9 x 12.7 cm
[on mount] 'Costume of Upper Egypt.' (ink note)
[on mount] '40' (pencil note)
[on verso of watercolour] 'Costume of Upper Egypt / 9th April 1843.' (pencil note)
View of the Eighth and Ninth Pylons of the Great Temple of Amun at Karnak, with the Pylon of the Temple of Khonsu in the background:
watercolour
mounted
35.5 x 26.1 cm
[on mount] 'Temple of Khons. / near the Great Hypostile, Karnac.' (ink note)
[on mount] '49' (pencil note)
[on verso of watercolour] 'Temple of Khons and the Pylon of Horus and Thothmes 2nd. / From of S entrance of the Great Hypostyle. Karnac. / 30th May 1843.' (pencil note)
Ramesses III shooting on foot and trampling enemies, accompanied by a group of archers and a fan-bearer, detail from the battle against the sea-peoples, from a scene on the North side of the outer face of the exterior wall of the Great Temple of Ramesses III at Medinet Habu:
Five female musicians playing the harp, lute, double-pipe, lyre and tambourine, accompanied by a small female dancer, from a scene in the tomb of Amenhotep-si-se (TT 75), temp. Thutmosis IV, at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna in Thebes:
pencil drawing
mounted
35 x 24.9 cm
[on recto of drawing] 'Tomb near 17. / 1st Sept 1843.' (pencil note)
[on mount] '12' (pencil note)
[on verso of drawing] 'Female Minstrels. / Tomb to which there is a forced passage from / No 17. / 1st Sept / 2nd Sept / } / 1843. / With exception of the first face on the left, all the others have been / carefully injured. I have restored these. The date of the tomb / I do not know, but it is probably about Amenophth 3rd. The / paintings are very badly done, and the tomb is unfinished. / The colours however are very fresh. There is in this as in other / tombs different colours for the females. The harper is yellow, / but the next woman is rather copper coloured, so is the / little girl, and the lute player. Were they women from the / Upper country, brought expressly for their national instru / ments? The girdle was not confined to the Upper country / women. Sotennofrä wears it.' (pencil note)
Statue of Queen Teye next to the right leg of the southern colossus of Amenhotep III (Memnon Colossi), in the Mortuary Temple of Amenhotep III at Thebes:
pencil drawing
mounted
24.9 x 35 cm
[on recto of drawing] 'Taia. / 8th Aug: 1843.' (pencil)
[on mount] 'The Wife of Amenophth 3rd. Height about 18 ft.' (pencil note)
[on mount] '17' (pencil note)
[on verso of drawing] 'Taia the wife of Amenophth 3rd / From the S. colossal statue. Gurna. / The other statue is the Memnon. 8 Aug. 1843 / The height of this beautiful and unfortunately / mutilated figure is about 18 ft.' (pencil note)
Woman carrying a menat and floral a bouquet, detail of a scene from an unidentified tomb at Thebes:
pencil drawing
mounted
25 x 34.9 cm
[on mount] 'From a Tomb.' (pencil note)
[on mount] '18' (pencil note)
[on verso of drawing] 'From a tomb to the N. perhaps No 5. or / near it. / 11 July 1843. / The paintings are stiff but the style is not bad. / The details are very much worked out. All the / heads of the women were effaced, it is said by / Mr. Hay's draughtsman. I have restored the face, the / band round the head, and the feet.' (pencil note)
Seated Queen Ahmose, wife of Tuthmosis I and mother of Hatshepsut, detail of a scene from a niche in Room X preceding the Sanctuary in the Great Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari:
pencil drawing
mounted
25 x 35 cm
[on recto of drawing] 'Amensä. El Assasief. 27th July 1843.' (pencil)
Some of the smaller columns with the great columns beyond, view of the Hypostyle in the Great Temple of Amun at Karnak:
unfinished pencil drawing
mounted
24.9 x 35 cm
[on mount] 'Part of the Great Hypostile Karnac.' (pencil note)
[on mount] '32' (pencil note)
[on verso of drawing] 'Part of the Great Hypostyle. Karnac / 13th May 1843. / The upper portion is in bad perspective. / All the columns and capitals are covered with / Bas-reliefs and Hieroglyphs. / G Ll.' (pencil note)
Upper part of the goddess Hathor, wearing a headdress with horns supporting a solar-disk, from an unidentified scene in the Great Temple of Amun at Karnak:
pencil drawing
mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 102
17.8 x 25.8 cm
[on recto of drawing] 'Athor. / From a Bas Relief in a Chamber near to the Colonnade of Thothmes 3rd Karnac. / 12th May 1843. G Ll.' (pencil note)
