Item Hoskins MSS 2.38 - George A. Hoskins Drawing - Gebel Barkal

1 drawing

View of the remains of the first hall of the large rock-temple of Amun ('Typhonium', B300) at Gebel Barkal. Several columns still intact amongst the rubble, including columns with Hathor-head capitals and a Bes-column:

• pencil drawing
• mounted
• 29.5 by 21.3 cm

Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.

• Discoloured 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. 19.
• 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.209.