Item Bonomi MSS 41.18 (recto) - Murder of the sacred Apis bull by Cambyses II, with study of the king's hand

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Murder of the sacred Apis bull by Cambyses II, with study of the king's hand:

• pencil sketches on paper
• loose, adjacent to page 6
• 39.5 x 24.8 cm
• [on sketch] 'No 8' (ink note)
• [on sketch] 'Egyptian priests in despair.' (ink note)
• [on sketch] 'The Bull dying' (ink note)
• [on sketch] 'Persian king & attendants' (ink note)

Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford

• Tom Hardwickh, "Raining Cats, Not Dogs: A Curator’s Take on our Updated Exhibit", the Houston Museum of Natural Science, 08/01/2020 (http://blog.hmns.org/2020/01/raining-cats-not-dogs/).