Item Bonomi MSS 4.2 [Top] - Egypt. Thebes. West Bank. Sheikh Abd el-Qurna. Tomb of Neferhotep (TT 49). Hall. Mourning women and child from funeral procession

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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):

• pencil and watercolor (black and pink) sketch on tracing paper
• mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 4.2 [Middle and Bottom]
• 15.7 x 12.1 cm
• [on mount] 'Two young women a child / and a grey headed old woman / putting dust on their heads / at the departure of the boat / that carries the mummy of / some relation or benefactor / to the Tomb / Drawn from the wall of a / tomb at Gorna' (pencil note)
• [on mount] 'Tomb of Nefer Hotep (49)' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)
• [on mount] encircled '1' (pencil note)
• [on mount] '2' (pencil note)

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