Item Lloyd MSS 107 - El-Qantara, Tell Abu Seifa, oblong base of quartzite monument with tapering sides, front - text

1 drawing

Oblong base of quartzite monument with tapering sides (called 'obelisk'), with dedication texts of Seti I and Ramesses II to Horus of Mesen commemorating Ramesses I, once at Tell Abu Seifa in el-Qantara, and now in Ismailia Museum, 2249; front, with remains of five columns of text and two lines of text at the bottom:

• pencil drawing
• mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 108
• 17.8 x 25.8 cm
• [on recto of drawing] 'Half of the underside of the Obelisk at Abu Saiffie. / 13th Feb 1843. / x' (pencil note)
• [on mount] '49' (pencil note)

Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford

• See Prisse d'Avennes, Monuments égyptiens: bas-reliefs, peintures, inscriptions, etc., d'après les dessins exécutés sur les lieux; pour faire suite aux Monuments de l'Égypte et de la Nubie de Champollion-le-Jeune (1847) (OEB 147831), plate xix [3].

• TopBib iv.6-7.