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Sketch of a stand with four depictions of the king supporting the sky inspired after a granite stand or altar of Taharqa, with Nile-gods binding sma-symbol on front and back and four figures of Taharqa holding up the sky on sides in the Outer Vestibule of the Great Temple of Amun at Gebel Barkal, between the Third and Fourth Cataracts in Sudan (TopBib vii.220(43)); probably after Abth. V. Bl. 13 in Lepsius, C. R., Denkmaeler aus Aegypten und Aethiopien: nach den Zeichnungen der von Seiner Majestät dem Koenige von Preussen, Friedrich Wilhelm IV., nach diesen Ländern gesendeten und in den Jahren 1842-1845 ausgeführten wissenschaftlichen Expedition, 12 vols. Berlin: Nicolai, [1849-1859] (OEB 143580):
- pencil and red pencil sketch on white tracing paper
- mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 9.11 (upper)
- 20.1 x 12.6 cm
- [on mount] '6' (pencil note, upside down)
- [on mount] encircled '19' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)
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