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Hoskins MSS 2.40
Nadpis
George A. Hoskins Drawing - Thebes. West Bank. Unidentified Tomb
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1 drawing
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(1802-1863)
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Scope and content
Relief scene showing the tomb owner and his wife seated before a large table piled with delicately illustrated offerings of various food types and other goods. There are several faint lines across the top of the page indicating the proportional grids. The scene comes from an unidentified Theban tomb on the west bank:
- pencil drawing
- mounted
- [on recto, bottom left corner of the paper] '[...] late 2 Gourneh'. (pencil note)
- 41.4 by 29.6 cm
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Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.
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Physical characteristics and technical requirements
- Crease to bottom left corner
- Discoloured
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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).