Egypt. Maidum. Pyramid of Snefru
- Bonomi MSS 1.1.2
- Item
Part of Joseph Bonomi Collection
View of the Pyramid of Snefru at Maidum (TopBib iv.89):
- pencil sketch on paper
- loose
- 12.2 x 7.9 cm
Egypt. Maidum. Pyramid of Snefru
Part of Joseph Bonomi Collection
View of the Pyramid of Snefru at Maidum (TopBib iv.89):
Egypt. El-Lisht. North Pyramid of Amenemhet I
Part of Joseph Bonomi Collection
View of the North Pyramid of Amenemhet I at El-Lisht (TopBib iv.77):
Egypt. Saqqara. Step pyramid enclosure of Netjerikhet. Underground rooms
Part of Joseph Bonomi Collection
Plans with measurements of underground rooms of step pyramid enclosure of Netjerikhet at Saqqara (TopBib iii2.401-402):
Part of Joseph Bonomi Collection
Illegible text:
Part of Joseph Bonomi Collection
Profile of a female head (design or Modern Egypt):
Part of Joseph Bonomi Collection
Top: view of a boat being towed (Modern Egypt); second from top: unclear subject, not finished; second from bottom and bottom: views of Philae temple from West (TopBib vi.205):
Part of Joseph Bonomi Collection
Note on signet rings:
'Signet ring of fine gold weighing nearly 3 sovereigns
bearing the name of Shufu the (Suphis) of the Greeks
This remarkable piece of antiquity is in the highest state
preservation
andsaid to have been found at Gezehin a tomb near
thatto the excavation of Col CampbellThe work
inThe style of the hieroglyphics is perfectly that of those
sculptorshieroglyphicsof the tombs about thegreat pyramid all the details are eminently executed
The heaven is engraved with
minutestars; The Fox or Jackall hassignificant lines within its con[t]our; The hatchets have
their handles bound with thongs as usual in the sculptures; The volumes have the
string that binds them
differentlyhanging below theroll differently placed from any example in sculptured or
painted hierogs in the tombs; The determinative for country
is studded with dots representing the sand of the mountainous
margins of the
sidevalley of Egypt The sign [F35] has thetongue and semilunar mark of the longer examples as also
the vase in the shape of the heart. The Name is surmounted
by the
usualglobe and feathers decorated in the usual way exceptthat the lines are more horizontal than in the sculptured examples,
and the ring of The cartouch is engraved with lines representing
a rope
ofofwhich decorationI know noof the line inclosingthe hieroglyphics of a royal name I know of no example but
this; the [Aa1] in the name is placed as in the tombs not in
the
centreas of the cartouch; the chickens have their unfledgedwings The serastes its horns to be seen only with the magnifying
glass
Ofthe variationsinfrom the usual made of representinga volume and the inclosure of Royal names are circumstances
favorable to the genuineness of this remarkable piece of antiquity
for when taken into consideration with the style
of the workwhichis infinitely more difficult to imitate than
littlelittlex(?)
in whichdetailsfromin which the fabricator would not haveventured to differ from the known examples'
Note on signet rings (continuation)
Part of Joseph Bonomi Collection
Note on signet rings (continuation):
'Ring of fine gold found in a wooden box
at Thebesin a tomb at ThebesGold ring with a figure of Isis sitting
it is massive and of that shape called OpisphendoneThebesSakkaraRing of fine gold with the figures of 2 goddesses
engraved in two cartouches surmounted with the
feathers SakkaraScarabeus set in gold on a pivot
Ring of
pure(?) gold in which is tastefully inserted
2 blue stones and one red oneRing of gold with a pyramidal stone in it
Ring of gold with a x plate
Ring of gold with a carnelian scarabeus
Ring of silver massive and of the greek form
Sakkara'
Part of Joseph Bonomi Collection
Notes on the wooden sarcophagus and two coffins of Ir, Dyn. XXVI, from Thebes, formerly in H. Salt, J. Lee and Lord Amherst collections and at Sotheby's in 1921, current location not known (TopBib i2.835):
'Harwell House October 21 1850
The great Sarcophagus in the Chapel
The GoddessNeith NNeith [X1*W24:N1] who is depicted in
full length on the inside of the upper half of the
third coffin is compounded of the hieroglyphic [V39]
in the same manner as the god [Q1\:D4\:A40], likewise depicted
full length, is corresponded of the hieroglyphic [R11].In Sarcophagi from the necropolis of Thebes it is
usual to find the same Goddess in the likeness of a beautiful
woman,usually, with her arms streached over the deceased
as the heavens streachedover the earth. That she represents
the heavens the determinative of her name [N1] is a
voucher, and her figure [C199] in this position over astronomi
cal signs. But if other proof were wanting there is a
stone sarcophagus in the British Museum where she
is sculptured streached out, as the heavens over the
earth, and giving birth to the Planets. In the lower half
of Sarcophagi from Thebes it is usual to find an other
Goddess female figure and not the figure of aman or oneman or god in the
likeness of a man or compounded of the [R11] as in the Hartwell
Coffin; and this goddess [X1\:H8-Q1] is the goddess of the earth. as might be naturally suppose(?)ThisfigureShe extends her arms up each side of the coffin as if
embracing the deceased or receiving the deceased into her bosomThat the stone Sacrophagus here quoted came from Thebes
I my self can assert being present where the officers of the
Luxor brought it out of the pitWhence then is the great Sarcophagus in the Chapel
of Hartwell house? The answer is,most probably fromLower Egypt. Most probably from the great necropolis
of Lower Egypt there namely theNecropolisdesert of Sakkara of Memphis. First
because Pthahofto whom(underlined) the sign R11 is peculiar(underlined) had a celebrated
Temple at in the city of Memphis and secondly because the hierogly
phics are of the form or style of writing peculiar to
this region of Egypt and thirdly because the form of the outer
case is of theancientform [Q6] most usual from in this nearby(?)
the most ancient times to the most recent in that
district of Egypt (See ancient inscription in the same
collection)'
Two squeezes and nine sketches of Egyptian amulets in Dr Lee's collection
Part of Joseph Bonomi Collection
Two squeezes and nine sketches of Egyptian amulets in Dr Lee's collection:
Eight sketches of shabtis in Dr Lee's collection
Part of Joseph Bonomi Collection
Eight sketches of shabtis in Dr Lee's collection:
Vase with ivy decoration, and hieroglyphic inscription "Ra raises"
Part of Joseph Bonomi Collection
Vase with ivy decoration, and hieroglyphic inscription "Ra raises":
Tiles with rosette / flower designs
Part of Joseph Bonomi Collection
Tiles with rosette / flower designs:
Egypt. West Bank. Thebes. Medinet Habu. Painted ceiling decoration, not identified
Part of Joseph Bonomi Collection
Unfinished design of unidentified painted ceiling decoration from Medinet Habu, on the West Bank of Thebes:
Part of Joseph Bonomi Collection
Part of the funeral procession scene (dragging of the sarcophagus) in the passage of the Tomb of Amenemhet (TT 82) at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, on the West Bank of Thebes (TopBib i2.165(10).III):
Part of Joseph Bonomi Collection
Back view of kneeling statue of Paser, Vizier (TT 106), with figure of Ptah, cartouche of Ramesses II, granite, temp. Sethos I to Ramesses II, found near the South Gate of the Wall of the Ptah Enclosure at Mit Rahina, now in Durham, Oriental Museum, N.511 / EG4003 (TopBib iii2.838)::
Part of Joseph Bonomi Collection
Four views [two front, side, top] of seated statue of Ramesses II, head lost, black granite, said to come from el-Matariya, now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, Temp. 15.4.18.1, with some measurements and details of inscriptions and throne decoration (TopBib iv.63A) (probably this):
Part of Joseph Bonomi Collection
A Hereditary prince, Count, etc., upper part of statue, right side of the face and left shoulder damaged, with the cartouches of Psammetikhos I on shoulders, basalt, temp. Psammetikhos I, formerly in J. Lee and Lord Amherst collections and at Sotheby's in 1921, current location not known, with measurements and details of cartouches (TopBib viii.801-763-510):
Relief with Alexander as pharaoh (probably not ancient)
Part of Joseph Bonomi Collection
Relief with Alexander as pharaoh (probably not ancient):
Egypt. West Bank. Thebes. Male and female mourners from funeral procession (not identified)
Part of Joseph Bonomi Collection
Male and female mourners from funeral procession, probably from a tomb on the West Bank at Thebes (not identified):
Unfinished sketch with two human figures, probably not Egyptological, not identified
Part of Joseph Bonomi Collection
Unfinished sketch with two human figures, probably not Egyptological, not identified:
Part of Joseph Bonomi Collection
Corner fragment of the sarcophagus of Ay with winged goddess and prenomen, from the Tomb of Ay (KV 23) in the Valley of the Kings, on the West Bank of Thebes, formerly in possession of the Royal Asiatic Society, now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, Temp. No. 3.8.39.1, with measurements and some details (TopBib i2.551):
Part of Joseph Bonomi Collection
Sketch and texts of the sarcophagus of Ay, red granite, from the Tomb of Ay (KV 23) in the Valley of the Kings, on the West Bank of Thebes, now in Cairo Museum, JE 72131 (TopBib i2.551):
Part of Joseph Bonomi Collection
Some texts of the sarcophagus of Ay, red granite, from the Tomb of Ay (KV 23) in the Valley of the Kings, on the West Bank of Thebes, now in Cairo Museum, JE 72131 (TopBib i2.551):
Part of Joseph Bonomi Collection
Ay's name on his sarcophagus, red granite, from the Tomb of Ay (KV 23) in the Valley of the Kings, on the West Bank of Thebes, now in Cairo Museum, JE 72131 (TopBib i2.551):
Two sections of canopic chest, not identified
Part of Joseph Bonomi Collection
Two sections of canopic chest, not identified:
Part of Joseph Bonomi Collection
Princess wearing a side-lock and diadem and carrying a lotus-flower (mirrored but with slightly different details), not identified but similar to the young princess Neferubiti, daughter of Tuthmosis I and Queen Ahmosi, from Room X preceding the Sanctuary in the Great Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari (TopBib ii2.365-366(132):
-pencil sketches/tracings on tracing paper
-loose
-12.3 x 9.5 cm
Egypt. Thebes. West Bank. Ramesseum. Hypostyle (section)
Part of Joseph Bonomi Collection
Partial section of the Hypostyle of the Ramesseum, on the West Bank of Thebes, not finished (TopBib ii.437):
Part of Joseph Bonomi Collection
List of hieroglyphic signs with their corresponding phonetic values in English, and some examples:
Part of Joseph Bonomi Collection
Mourning women and child behind the [coffin being dragged] from a scene depicting the funeral procession of the deceased in the Hall of Tomb of Neferhotep (TT 49) at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, on the West Bank of Thebes (TopBib i2.91.(4).I):