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Edwards MSS 2.1.2
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The Damascus Gate; men riding donkeys; a shaduf; camels; and water bearers
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- 1874 (Creation)
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(1831-1892)
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Nine mounted pencil sketches:
- top left: man on donkey
- top middle: shaduf
- [on mount] 'The Shadoof' (ink note)
- top right: man on donkey
- middle left: man
- middle middle: Damascus Gate, Cairo
- [on mount] 'The Bab en Nasr - or Damascus Gate. Cairo' (ink note)
- middle right: man
- bottom left: two camels
- bottom middle: man
- bottom right: camel, man and three women with water jars
- [on mount] 'Going to fetch water from the Nile' (ink note)
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Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford
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Sketch of the Damascus Gate published in: Moon, Brenda E. 2006. More usefully employed: Amelia B. Edwards, writer, traveller and campaigner for ancient Egypt. Egypt Exploration Society, Occasional Publications 15. London: Egypt Exploration Society. (OEB 155078). Plate 1.