Item Hoskins MSS 1.140 - George A. Hoskins Drawing - Soleb

1 drawing

Plan of the temple of Amun and Amenhotep III at Soleb:

• ink drawing
• mounted
• [on recto, top edge] 'for a 4to plate' (pencil note)
• [on recto, right side edge] 'P 40 L B - Temple of Solib built by Amenoph 3d'. (pencil note)
• [on recto, centre] There are further faint notes written next to the plan itself, commenting on particular areas of the site.
• 41.7 by 26.5 cm

Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.

• Tears to top edge corners
• Crease to bottom left corner
• Discolouration around edges

• Published in Hoskins, G. A. 1835. Travels in Ethiopia, Above the Second Cataract of the Nile: Exhibiting the State of that Country, and Its Various Inhabitants, Under the Dominion of Mohammed Ali; and Illustrating the Antiquities, Arts, and History of the Ancient Kingdom of Meroe. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, pl. 40.
• Published online on the Griffith Institute website: 'The watercolours and drawings by George Alexander Hoskins in the Archive of the Griffith Institute, University of Oxford' (http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/gri/4hoskins_opening_page.html).

• TopBib vii.169.