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Selection of Mycenaean pottery from Mycenae, Melos and Athens

Selection of Mycenaean pottery from Mycenae, Melos and Athens:

  • pencil drawings on tracing paper
  • mounted
  • 27.8 x 21.8 cm
  • [on drawing] 'N 239 / ATHENS' (pencil note)
  • [on drawing] 'N 90 / ATHENS' (pencil note)
  • [on drawing] '224 / MELOS' (pencil note)
  • [on drawing] 'A / B / C' (pencil note)
  • [on drawing] 'MYCENÆ' (pencil note)

Different representations of child kings, from a temple relief (probably the mammisi of a Graeco-Roman temple, not identified) or composed from different sources

Different representations of child kings, from a temple relief (probably the mammisi of a Graeco-Roman temple, not identified) or composed from different sources:

  • pencil sketch, with ink marks, on tracing paper
  • mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 49.24 and Bonomi MSS 49.25
  • 22.9 x 12.6 cm

Cover

Cover of the Lane presentation album.

  • 26.3 x 20 cm
  • Embossed gold note on spine exterior reads: 'Egypt C.W. Lane'.

Enclosure 2

Handwritten notes recording contacts at various institutions whom the former owners of the album may have consulted in relation to the album's contents.

  • 14 x 9 cm
  • [annotation]: 'See Mr Gibb Smith / V&A. / Capt. Hollis Smith / of Parker Galleries / suggested I bring the / book & you'd introduce / me to the right person / John Halton(?) in Library, / or Print Room -'

Head of Great Sphinx, Giza

Head of the Great Sphinx at Giza, with one man standing below to the right side of the Sphinx's head while another man climbs towards its chin:

  • pencil, monochrome watercolour
  • mounted
  • 13.4 x 10 cm
  • [Lane's caption on page verso, at top right corner] 'The Great Sphinx.' (pencil note)

Mosque of Ahmad Ibn Tulun, Cairo

View of the Mosque of Ahmad Ibn Tulun in Cairo showing the courtyard with the ablution fountain:

  • pencil, monochrome watercolour
  • mounted
  • 17.8 x 10 cm
  • [Lane's caption on page verso, at top left corner] 'The Great Mosque of Ibu Too'loo'n, vulgarly called Ga'me' Teyloo'n — a, dome over the tank — b, the great minaret — / c, minaret of a mosque at the eastern angle of the Ckal'' at el-Kebsh — / Erected A H 263 AD 876-7' (pencil note)

Limestone colossus of Ramesses II, Mit Rahina

The fallen colossal limestone statue of Ramesses II ('Abû el-Ḥol'), from the south gate of the Ptah enclosure at Mit Rahina:

  • black ink, monochrome watercolour
  • mounted
  • 17.6 x 10 cm
  • [Lane's caption on page verso, at top left corner] 'Colossal figure at Memphis' (pencil note)

Temple wall scene, tribute, Beit el-Wali

Part of a temple wall scene from the forecourt of the Beit el-Wali temple at Kalabsha, two registers of Nubians, including women and children, bringing tribute with animals, [to Ramesses II]:

  • pencil drawing
  • mounted
  • 17.8 x 10.2 cm
  • [Lane's caption on page verso, at top left corner] 'Sculpture on the left side-wall of the court before the rock-temple of Ckala'b'sheh.' (pencil note)

Tomb wall scene, gazelle suckling fawn, Giza

Tomb wall scene, a gazelle suckling a fawn:

  • pencil drawing
  • mounted
  • 17.6 x 10 cm
  • [Lane's caption on page verso, at top left corner] illegible pencil note
  • Detail from a wall scene, gazelle suckling calf, probably from scenes of bringing fowl and young animals in boxes (including hare, hedgehog, gazelles, and gazelle and young, from room I in the tomb of Nebemakhet [LG 86], son of Khephren, in the Central Field at Giza.

Iraq. Nineveh. South-West Palace of Sennacherib. Court XIX (U). Panels 10-12. Relief depicting Assyrians carrying off booty and heads and booty piled up in a palm grove, c. 640-620 BC; drawing/tracing from gypsum slab now in London, British Museum, BM 124825,b = 1851,0902.1.b

Relief depicting Assyrians carrying off booty and heads and booty piled up in a palm grove, c. 640-620 BC; drawing/tracing from gypsum slab (panels 10-12) from Court XIX (U) in the South-West Palace of Sennacherib at Nineveh in Iraq, now in London, British Museum, BM 124825,b = 1851,0902.1.b:

  • pencil drawing/tracing on tracing paper
  • loose
  • 25.1 x 15.8 cm

Iraq. Nineveh. South-West Palace of Sennacherib. Room V. Slab 43. Relief depicting an Assyrian fortified camp, c. 660-650 BC; sketch from gypsum slab in situ, but reported stolen in 1995

Relief depicting an Assyrian fortified camp, c. 660-650 BC; sketch from gypsum slab (no. 43) from Room V in the South-West Palace of Sennacherib at Niniveh in Iraq, left in situ, but reported stolen in 1995:

  • pencil drawing on paper
  • loose
  • 37.1 x 23.6 cm
  • [on sketch] 'Nº 39 Chamber C' (pencil note)
  • [on sketch] 'Abth' (pencil note)

Iraq. Nimrud (Kahlu). North-West Palace. Room B. Panel 10. Relief depicting Ashurnasirpal II and his army crossing the Euphrates, c. 865-860 BC; sketch/tracing from gypsum slab now in London, British Museum, BM 124543 = 1848,1104.8

Relief depicting Ashurnasirpal II and his army crossing the Euphrates, c. 865-860 BC; sketch from gypsum slab (panel 10) from Room B in the North-West Palace at Nimrud (Kahlu) in Iraq, now in London, British Museum, BM 124543 = 1848,1104.8:

  • pencil sketch/tracing on tracing paper
  • mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 32.36
  • 25.2 x 11 cm

Iraq. Nimrud (Kahlu). North-West Palace. Room B. Panel 8 (top). Relief depicting a battle scene, where the chariot of a beardless Assyrian officer leads charge towards hillock, c. 865-860 BC; drawing/tracing from gypsum slab now in London, British Museum, BM 124546 = 1849,0502.12 (reversed)

Relief depicting a battle scene, where the chariot of a beardless Assyrian officer leads charge towards hillock, c. 865-860 BC; drawing/tracing from gypsum slab (panel 8 <top>) from Room B in the North-West Palace at Nimrud (Kahlu) in Iraq, now in London, British Museum, BM 124546 = 1849,0502.12 (reversed):

  • pencil drawing/tracing on tracing paper
  • mounted
  • 38.2 x 22 cm

Marble base with relief of two caryatids (only that on the right reproduced) and seated woman as personification of a conquered land, with Greek inscriptions (Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, inv. 6715, 1st-2nd century AD)

Marble base with relief of two caryatids (only that on the right reproduced) and seated woman as personification of a conquered land, with Greek inscriptions (Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, inv. 6715, 1st-2nd century AD):

  • pencil sketch on paper
  • mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 34.1
  • 21.1 x 13.9 cm
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