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Bonomi MSS 9.4 (top)
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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 of two registers of deities; composition inspired from different monuments and publications in preparation for the engraved plates in Wilkinson's Supplement (1841); from top to bottom, left to right: Atum (plate 47), Toth (plate 45), Khonsu (plate 46), Khnum (plate 21), two forms of Amun (both on plate 22), Shu (plate 46), Hathor (plate 36), Sekhmet (various plates), Anukis (plate 48), Mut (plates 27), Neith (plate 28):
- pencil tracing on tracing paper
- mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 9.4 (middle) and Bonomi MSS 9.4 (bottom)
- 26.2 x 16.4 cm
- [on mount] encircled '12' (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 21, 22, 27, 28, 36, 45, 46, 47, 48.