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Lloyd MSS 126
Title
El-Qantara, Tell Abu Seifa, oblong base of quartzite monument with tapering sides, fragments from scenes
Date(s)
- 12 February 1843 (Creation)
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1 drawing
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(1815-1843)
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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)
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Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford
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Publication note
- 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].
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Note
- TopBib iv.6-7.