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Lloyd MSS 058
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Thebes, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, tomb of Mery (TT 95), female musicians and dancers
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- 18 July 1843 (Creation)
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1 drawing
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(1815-1843)
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Female musicians and dancers, detail from a scene in the tomb of Mery (TT 95), temp. Amenhotep III, at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna in Thebes:
- pencil drawing
- mounted
- 34.5 x 25 cm
- [on recto of drawing] 'Women dancing / Tomb S of 34. 18 July 1843.' (pencil note)
- [on mount] '2' (pencil note)
- [on verso of drawing] 'The dress is the Greek Cimberia(?)' (pencil note)
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Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford
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Publication note
- Prisse d'Avennes, Histoire de l'art égyptien d'après les monuments depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à la domination romaine (1878-1879) (OEB 147830), Texte, p. 396-397 ('Je dois ce dessin à mon ami Georges Lloyd, qui avait dessiné autrefois cette scène sans y mettre les couleurs dont elle est ornée, et uniquement pour conserver un souvenir précis de l'élégance que les Égyptiens savaient apporter quelquefois dans leurs compositions.'); Atlas II, 7th plate [upper].
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- TopBib i2.195(1).II.