Item Hoskins MSS 2.69 - George A. Hoskins Drawing - Wad Ban Naga

1 drawing

View of two Bes-columns from the birth house at the temple of Isis at Wad Ban Naga in Meroe:

• pencil drawing
• mounted
• [on recto, top left corner] 'v 7 p 195 Temple of Abou Naga' (pencil note)
• [on recto, bottom left corner] 'G A H'. (ink note)
• 25.6 by 21.5 cm

Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.

• Damage to top right corner
• 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, fig. on p. 112.
• 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.263.