Item Horeau MSS 17.3 - Hector Horeau Watercolour - Valley of the Kings

1 watercolour

Plan of the tomb of Ramesses VII (KV 1, Valley of the Kings):

• watercolour
• mounted
• [on recto, top edge] 'le sarcophage a la forme d'un cartouche Rhamsès VI'. (pencil note)
• [on recto, bottom edge] 'osiris juge de l'amenti genies de l'amenti, la ligne jaune du plafond represente un ventre de femme des soleils [ ] de la matrice.' (pencil note)
• [on mount, verso] 'VALLÉE des TOMBEAUX TOMBEAU de RHAMSÈS VI.' (ink note)
• 16.6 by 21 cm

Copyright Griffith Institute, Oxford.

• Published online in 2010 on the Griffith Institute website: 'Watercolours of Egypt made by Hector Horeau in 1838, now in the Archive of the Griffith Institute' (http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/gri/4horeau_intro.html).

• TopBib ii2.495A.