Item Hoskins MSS 1.8 - 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 edge -reading from left to right] 'North side 2dd chamber p1 T el Khargeh Oasis magna Right', 'bird with legs of a man', 'Right hand', 'on pedestal', 'tiger', 'arm of a man last of Arms on one hand & a stand end on the other'. (pencil notes)
• 30.6 by 23.4 cm

Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.

• Discolouration 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 vii.
• 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.285-7 (117)-(118).