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Two winged female figures (probably Muses) and young man presenting offerings; probably memorial to Michael Faraday:

• pencil sketch on tracing paper, glued on card
• loose
• 20.8 x 24.2 cm
• [on sketch] 'SPLENDET / ÆTERNUMQUE / SPLENDEBIT' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'FARADAY' (pencil note)

Tracing after figure 18, plate XIX in Rosellini, Ippolito, I monumenti dell'Egitto e della Nubia (Band 4,1, Atlas): Monumenti storici. Pisa: Nicoló Capurro, 1832 (OEB 148870), of a fragment of scene 6, with Queen Meritamun before Thoth (here, just Queen), from the Hall of the Tomb of Queen Meritamun (QV 68) in the Valley of the Queens, on the West Bank of Thebes (TopBib i2.766(6)):

• pencil tracing on tracing paper
• mounted reversed, together with Bonomi MSS 9.15 (lower)
• 19.9 x 27.4 cm
• [on sketch] '9.16t' (pencil note, recent annotation)
• [on sketch] 'Green' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'Red' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'White' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'The rest / blue / also the border' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'Gold' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'Blue' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'Blue' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'Gold' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'Gold - Blue' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'Ribbons red' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'Red stripped' (pencil note)
• [on mount] '4' (pencil note, upside down)
• [on mount] encircled '23' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)

Sketches and tracings (on both recto and verso) of a group of images of Bes, Ptah-Patek, and a sarcophagus lid; composition inspired by depictions from different monuments and publications, including a design of Bes holding flower bouquets from the inner face of the colonnade from the Birth House at Dendera [TopBib vi.104] (middle), together with designs of Ptah-Patek and Bes figures (left) and a sarcophagus lid (right), in preparation for the engraved plate 24A in Wilkinson's Supplement (1841):

• pencil and ink sketch/tracing on tracing paper
• mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 9.15 (upper)
• 23.2 x 11.9 cm
• [on sketch] '7.5' (ink note)
• [on mount] '4' (pencil note, upside down)
• [on mount] encircled '23' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)

Sketches and tracings (on both recto and verso) of a group of designs, including menorahs, camel caravans, tents, and other related elements, together with a Demotic inscription:

• pencil sketches/tracings on tracing paper
• mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 9.14 (upper right), Bonomi MSS 9.14 (lower left), Bonomi MSS 9.14 (lower middle), and Bonomi MSS 9.14 (lower right)
• 25.6 x 9.6 cm
• [on mount] encircled '22' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)

Tracing of two registers of deities; composition inspired by depictions from different monuments and publications in preparation for the engraved plates in Wilkinson's Supplement (1841); from top to bottom, right to left: Montu (plate 49, part 2), Tefnut (plate 51), Maat (plate 49), Ptah-Patek (not included), Satet (plate 21, part 2), Heqet (plate 25, part 4), Nut (plate 32), Geb (plate 31, part 1), Sobek (plate 50), Ra, (plate 29), Neith (plate 28), and Ptah (plate 23):

• pencil tracing on tracing paper
• mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 9.14 (upper left), Bonomi MSS 9.14 (lower left), Bonomi MSS 9.14 (lower middle), and Bonomi MSS 9.14 (lower right)
• 32.1 x 17.9 cm
• [on mount] encircled '22' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)

Tracing of a design of an entrance to a building topped by a large pharaoh's head:

• pencil tracing on tracing paper
• mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 9.14 (upper left), Bonomi MSS 9.14 (upper right), Bonomi MSS 9.14 (lower middle), and Bonomi MSS 9.14 (lower right)
• 7.9 x 10.1 cm
• [on mount] encircled '22' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)

Tracing of a design of unidentified plant:

• ink tracing on tracing paper
• mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 9.14 (upper left), Bonomi MSS 9.14 (upper right), Bonomi MSS 9.14 (lower left), and Bonomi MSS 9.14 (lower right)
• 4.6 x 3.0 cm
• [on sketch] 'd. - 234' (ink note)
• [on mount] encircled '22' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)

Preliminary printing (only red) of part of three registers of tomb decoration, including offering bearers and female mourners; composition inspired by depictions from various Theban tombs for the engraved plate 83 titled "Great Funeral Procession of a Royal Scribe at Thebes" in Wilkinson's Supplement (1841):

• ink (red, brown, and remains of blue) on tracing paper
• mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 9.13 (upper), Bonomi MSS 9.13 (lower left), and Bonomi MSS 9.13 (lower middle)
• 6.8 x 11.0 cm
• [on mount] '5' (pencil note, upside down)
• [on mount] encircled '21' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)

Tracing of Horus as king with double crown (on recto) and god Amun (on recto); inspired by unidentified monuments or publications in preparation for the engraved plates 37A (Horus) and 22 (Amun) in Wilkinson's Supplement (1841):

• pencil tracing on tracing paper
• mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 9.13 (upper), Bonomi MSS 9.13 (lower left), and Bonomi MSS 9.13 (lower right)
• 8.6 x 9.0 cm
• [on mount] '5' (pencil note, upside down)
• [on mount] encircled '21' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)

Pillar-base with six figures in high relief, Hathor between Monthu and Tuthmosis III, usurped from Sesostris I(?), granite, found by Belzoni in a small temple at north-east corner of enclosure wall at Karnak, on the East Bank of Thebes, now in London, British Museum, EA12 [TopBib ii2.296]:

• pencil tracing on tracing paper
• originally mounted (now loose), together with Bonomi MSS 9.13 (lower left), Bonomi MSS 9.13 (lower middle), and Bonomi MSS 9.13 (lower right)
• 27.1 x 30.5 cm
• [on mount] '5' (pencil note, upside down)
• [on mount] encircled '21' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)

Sketch (on both recto and verso) of a view inspired by the Osiride Pillars in the Great Hall of the Great Temple of Ramesses II at Abu Simbel in Nubia (TopBib vii.101); the view includes a number of alterations/additions, such as the nemes-headdress of the pillar figures and silhouettes of people:

• pencil sketch on tracing paper
• mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 9.11 (lower)
• 18.6 x 29.5 cm
• [on mount] '6' (pencil note, upside down)
• [on mount] encircled '19' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)
• [on mount] 'Abu Simbel?' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)

Wooden niche-stela of Merib, Royal acquaintance and son Nejemib, Steward, end of Dynasty III or early Dynasty IV, from Saqqara, now in Paris, Musée du Louvre, N.3389 (TopBib iii2.746):

• pencil sketch on white tracing paper
• mounted
• 25.7 x 41.7 cm
• [on sketch] 'Fragment in just wood in the Col-of / M Seissons drawn one fourth of / the size of the original / It is in basso relievo and perfectly in / the style of the sculptures of the tombs of / Gezeh' (pencil note)
• [on mount] encircled '20' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)

Sketch of a stand with four depictions of the king supporting the sky inspired after a granite stand or altar of Taharqa, with Nile-gods binding sma-symbol on front and back and four figures of Taharqa holding up the sky on sides in the Outer Vestibule of the Great Temple of Amun at Gebel Barkal, between the Third and Fourth Cataracts in Sudan (TopBib vii.220(43)); probably after Abth. V. Bl. 13 in Lepsius, C. R., Denkmaeler aus Aegypten und Aethiopien: nach den Zeichnungen der von Seiner Majestät dem Koenige von Preussen, Friedrich Wilhelm IV., nach diesen Ländern gesendeten und in den Jahren 1842-1845 ausgeführten wissenschaftlichen Expedition, 12 vols. Berlin: Nicolai, [1849-1859] (OEB 143580):

• pencil and red pencil sketch on white tracing paper
• mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 9.11 (upper)
• 20.1 x 12.6 cm
• [on mount] '6' (pencil note, upside down)
• [on mount] encircled '19' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)

Sketch (on both recto and verso) of a design with a Nile-god carrying offering, inspired by unidentified monument:

• pencil sketch on tracing paper
• mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 9.10 (upper) Bonomi MSS 9.10 (lower left), and Bonomi MSS 9.10 (lower middle)
• 8.9 x 11.4 cm
• [on mount] encircled '178' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)

Sketch of a view inspired by the Osiride Pillars in the Great Hall of the Great Temple of Ramesses II at Abu Simbel in Nubia (TopBib vii.101); the view includes a number of alterations/additions, such as the nemes-headdress of the pillar figures:

• pencil sketch on tracing paper
• mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 9.2 (lower left) and Bonomi MSS 9.2 (lower right)
• 22.1 x 34.5 cm
• [on mount] encircled '10' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)
• [on mount] 'Abu Simbel?' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)

Sketch of a view inspired by the Osiride Pillars in the Great Hall of the Great Temple of Ramesses II at Abu Simbel in Nubia (TopBib vii.101); the view includes a number of alterations/additions, such as the nemes-headdress of the pillar figures:

• pencil sketch on tracing paper
• mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 9.10 (lower left), Bonomi MSS 9.10 (lower middle), and Bonomi MSS 9.10 (lower right)
• 22.4 x 27.2 cm
• [on mount] encircled '178' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)

Tracing (on both recto and verso) of Palestinian name-ring 29 (Yad Hemmelek), detail from a scene depicting Sheshonq I (unfinished), with ka, smiting Asiatics before Amun and Waset, both holding Palestinian name-rings, on the exterior (South) face of the Portico of the Bubastides in the Forecourt of the Great Temple of Amun at Karnak, on the East Bank of Thebes (TopBib ii2.35(124)), with Latin inscription "IMP CAES DOMITIANO XX C COS VII":

• pencil tracing on tracing paper
• mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 9.10 (upper), Bonomi MSS 9.10 (lower middle), and Bonomi MSS 9.10 (lower right)
• 7.3 x 18.0 cm
• [on mount] encircled '178' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)

Tracing (on both recto and verso) of two registers of deities; composition inspired by depictions from different monuments and publications in preparation for the engraved plates in Wilkinson's Supplement (1841); from top to bottom, right to left: Harpocrates (plate 37A), Anubis (plate 44), Horus (plate 37), Osiris (plate 33), Nephtys (plate 35), Isis (plate 34), Imsety, Hapy, Duamutef, Qebehsenuef (all four sons of Hours on plate 61), Horus (plate 37), Horus-Seth / The one of Ombos (plate 38) and dressed, personified djed-pillar (plate 33, from the Hall in the Tomb of Kynebu (TT 113) at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, on the West Bank of Thebes, now destroyed (TopBib i2.231(2))):

• pencil tracing on tracing paper
• mounted, together with Bonomi MS 9.1 (lower)
• 26.3 x 24.8 cm
• [on verso] '1 hour 1/4 h / trace one' (pencil note)
• [on mount] '11' (pencil note, upside down)
• [on mount] encircled '1' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)

Tracing after Roberts, David, Egypt and Nubia, from drawings made on the spot by David Roberts. London: F. G. Moon, 1846 (OEB 148677), vol. I, 20th plate; view of the axis of the Hypostyle in the Great Temple of Amun at Karnak, on the East Bank of Thebes (TopBib ii2.41):

• pencil tracing on tracing paper
• partially mounted
• 35.6 x 47.6 cm
• [on mount] 'Karnak?' / 'hypostyle.' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)
• [on mount] encircled '16' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)

Tracing of a view of the upper part of two papyriform columns (closed capitals) from an unidentified monument, perhaps a Theban temple:

• pencil tracing on tracing paper
• originally mounted (now loose)
• 24.2 x 19 cm
• [on mount] '7' (pencil note, upside down)
• [on mount] encircled '17' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)

Pencil tracing (on verso) of two registers of deities; composition inspired by depictions from different monuments and publications in preparation for the engraved plates in Wilkinson's Supplement (1841); upper register with an unfinished design of five forms of Amun (plate 22) and lower register with design with two forms of Satet (right) and and two forms of Khnum (left) (plate 21); together with an ink sketch (on recto) of man drinking water from amphora being held by woman (Classical):

• pencil tracing (verso) and ink sketch (recto) on tracing paper
• mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 9.7 (upper)
• 20.7 x 26.1 cm
• [on mount] '8' (pencil note, upside down)
• [on mount] encircled '15' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)

Tracing of a design of seated Ptah writing, inspired by unidentified monument or publication in preparation for the engraved plate 23 in Wilkinson's Supplement (1841):

• pencil tracing on tracing paper
• mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 9.6 (upper) and Bonomi MSS 9.6 (lower right)
• 9.3 x 8.2 cm
• [on mount] encircled '14' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)

Tracing (on recto, but mounted reversed) of the upper part of a false-door from the tomb of Pernedju (Dynasty VI) to the West of the Step Pyramid at Saqqara, formerly in Lee and Amherst Collections (TopBib iii.612):

• ink tracing on tracing paper
• mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 9.6 (lower left) and Bonomi MSS 9.6 (lower right)
• 31.9 x 25.8 cm
• [on tracing] 'Versuchung' (ink note)
• [on mount] encircled '14' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)