Item Hoskins MSS 3.40 - George A. Hoskins Watercolour - Thebes. West Bank. Valley of the Kings. Tomb KV 17

1 watercolour

Section from side room N of the tomb of Sety I (KV17, Valley of the Kings) on the west bank of Thebes. The background includes a large relief scene from one of the walls, and shows a row of various deities and figures from the Book of Imi-Duat and a row of furniture. Slightly off-centre and in front of this wall is a pillar designated as pillar B, with a large representation of the god Osiris between the emblems of Anubis:

• watercolour
• mounted
• [on mount, bottom edge] 'Section of one of the rooms in the sepulchre of King Osirei'. (ink note)
• 53.5 by 28.5 cm

Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.

• Small tear to top left corner
• Discoloured around edges

• 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 i2.544(46) and 545.