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Bonomi MSS 9.1 (upper)
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Composition with two registers of deities, inspired by depictions from different monuments and publications
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(1796-1878)
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Tracing (on both recto and verso) of two registers of deities; composition inspired by depictions from different monuments and publications in preparation for the engraved plates in Wilkinson's Supplement (1841); from top to bottom, right to left: Harpocrates (plate 37A), Anubis (plate 44), Horus (plate 37), Osiris (plate 33), Nephtys (plate 35), Isis (plate 34), Imsety, Hapy, Duamutef, Qebehsenuef (all four sons of Hours on plate 61), Horus (plate 37), Horus-Seth / The one of Ombos (plate 38) and dressed, personified djed-pillar (plate 33, from the Hall in the Tomb of Kynebu (TT 113) at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, on the West Bank of Thebes, now destroyed (TopBib i2.231(2))):
- pencil tracing on tracing paper
- mounted, together with Bonomi MS 9.1 (lower)
- 26.3 x 24.8 cm
- [on verso] '1 hour 1/4 h / trace one' (pencil note)
- [on mount] '11' (pencil note, upside down)
- [on mount] encircled '1' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)
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Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford
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- Preparatory sketches for some of the plates in Wilkinson, J. G., The manners and customs of the ancient Egyptians: including their private life, government, laws, arts, manufactures, religion, agriculture, and early history; derived from a comparison of the paintings, sculptures, and monuments still existing, with the accounts of ancient authors. Illustrated by drawings of those subjects, [6] vols. London: John Murray, 1837-1841 (OEB 152658). Specifically plates 33, 34, 35, 37, 37A, 38, 44, 61.