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Bonomi MSS 9.2 (lower left)
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Design of Ptah, inspired by unidentified monument or publication
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(1796-1878)
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Tracing of a design of Ptah, inspired by unidentified monument or publication in preparation for the engraved plate 23 in Wilkinson's Supplement (1841):
- pencil tracing on tracing paper
- mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 9.2 (upper) and Bonomi MSS 9.2 (lower right)
- 9.1 x 9.2 cm
- [on mount] encircled '10' (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 plate 23.