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Reference code
Hoskins MSS 1.24
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George A. Hoskins Watercolour - Thebes, West Bank. Tomb TT 100
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1 watercolour
Context area
Name of creator
(1802-1863)
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Scope and content
Three registers of relief scenes from the passage area of the tomb of Rekhmire (TT100) at the west bank of Thebes, including rows of male figures providing food offerings and vases, prostrating and kissing the ground, and craftsmen working on objects including a striding royal statue, and at the bottom scene a figure weighing gold. In the centre is a large representation of the tomb owner, and on the right are rows of male attendants:
- watercolour
- mounted
- [on recto, bottom left corner] 'After the two rows of 10 is thus No 11'. (ink note)
- [on recto, bottom right corner] figures labelled '1' and '2'. (pencil note)
- [on mount, bottom edge] 'Tomb at Thebes Contd'. (ink note)
- 43.2 by 28.7 cm
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Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.
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- Crease to top right corner of paper
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Publication note
- 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).
Notes area
Note
- TopBib i2.211 (14).