Item Lloyd MSS 124 - El-Qantara, Tell Abu Seifa, oblong base of quartzite monument with tapering sides, left side - right part

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; left side, right part, with remains of a scene at top with seated deity, and remains of six columns of text below and two lines of text at the bottom [drawn separately]:

• pencil drawing
• mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 123
• 18.8 x 25.8 cm
• [on recto of drawing] 'No 1 a / 1 ft 6 in / x 4 ft. 8 in / a/ a - 1ft. 9 in - 2ft. 6 in' (pencil note)
• [on recto of drawing] 'Obelisk at Abu Saiffie. 12th Feb 1843. / x' (pencil note)
• [on mount] '66' (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 [right part of 2].

• TopBib iv.6-7.