Item Hoskins MSS 1.6 - George A. Hoskins Drawing - el-Kharga

1 drawing

Mythological scenes from the sanctuary area of the Amun temple at Hibis:

• pencil drawing
• mounted
• [on recto, bottom left corner] 'South side 2d chamber p1 T el Khargeh Oasis magna Left'. (pencil note)
• [on recto, top left corner] rough sketches of hieroglyph signs
• 30.0 by 24.0 cm

Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.

• Small tears and discolouration visible at corners

• Published in Hoskins, G. A. 1837. Visit to the Great Oasis of the Libyan Desert: with an account, ancient and modern, of the oasis of Amun, and the other oases now under the dominion of the pasha of Egypt. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman (OEB 141747), plate vi.
• 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.285 (115)-(116).