Item Hoskins MSS 1.91 - George A. Hoskins Drawing - Cubit Measure

1 drawing

Drawing of a cubit measure, including subdivisions:

• pencil drawing
• mounted
• [on recto, top edge] '20 inches and 5 lines exactly, 20½', 'Cubit of Turin ' width of the ' plain side of the cubit'. (pencil notes)
• 27.6 by 18.9 cm

Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.

• Paper unevenly cut along top edge
• Heavily discoloured around edges and corners

These are originals.

None.

• 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 iii2.773.

• Based on the cubit rod of Amenemope, 18th Dynasty (now in Turin, Museo Egizio, Cat. 6347: https://collezioni.museoegizio.it/en-GB/material/Cat_6347).