Item Hoskins MSS 2.61 - George A. Hoskins Drawing - Meroe

1 drawing

Relief scene from the south wall of the chapel area of the pyramid of Arqamani (North Group N.7) at Meroe, showing a priest making offerings of incense and libations before a large seated figure of the king on the right side, with several rows of various deities in between them. Below this is a row of detailed offerings and another smaller priestly figure, and along the bottom edge of the relief scene are serpents holding knives:

• pencil drawing
• mounted
• [on recto, bottom left corner] 'P 71'. (pencil note)
• [on recto, top right corner] 'plate 2 [...] reduced'. (pencil note)
• 38.8 by 26.0 cm

Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.

• Top left corner of paper cut
• 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. 11.
• 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.246.