Item Hoskins MSS 3.43 - George A. Hoskins Watercolour - Thebes. West Bank. Tomb TT 50

1 watercolour

A tomb relief scene from the hallway of the early 18th Dynasty tomb of Neferhotep (TT50) at the west bank of Thebes. This scene comes from register I, and shows a young son making an offering to his seated parents and relatives, each of whom have a funerary cone on their head and are embracing one another:

• watercolour
• mounted
• [on recto, top left corner] 'Plate 2'. (pencil note)
• [on mount, bottom edge] 'Tomb of Amulek Thebes'. (ink note)
• 35.7 by 22.0 cm

Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.

• Slight fold towards left side
• Discoloured around edges particularly at corners

• 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 i.95(3).