[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'
Various designs featuring female figures pouring oil into a lamp [left and right middle], profile of head of Egyptian(?) woman [right bottom] and dado(?) pattern [right top]:
pencil drawings and sketches on tracing paper mounted on paper
loose
26.4 x 23.1 cm
[on right top sketch] 'red lines / green orn' (pencil note)
[on right top sketch] 'Red lines / thick green lines on' (pencil note)
[on right top sketch] 'yellow ground' (pencil note)
[on right top sketch] 'Red lines / yellow ground' (pencil note)
[on right middle drawing] 'TREASURY' (pencil note)
[on right middle drawing] 'LIFE / ASSURANCE' (pencil note)