Item Lloyd MSS 126 - El-Qantara, Tell Abu Seifa, oblong base of quartzite monument with tapering sides, fragments from scenes

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; fragments from [at least] two sides with remains of scenes of kings kneeling before deities:

• pencil drawings
• mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 125
• 25.7 x 17.7 cm
• [on recto of drawing] 'a / a / Fragments of the Obelisk at Abu Saiffie. / a and a are different sides of the angle. / 12th Feb 1843. / x' (pencil note)
• [on mount] '68' (pencil note)

Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford

• Not included in 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 [1-3].

• TopBib iv.6-7.