Item Lloyd MSS 143 - Thebes, Deir el-Medina, tomb of Kha (TT 8), female lutist

1 tracing

Female lute player, detail from a scene with female musicians performing for guests at a banquet in the tomb of Kha (TT 8), temp. Amenhotep II, Tuthmosis IV and Amenhotep III, at Deir el-Medina in Thebes:

• pencil tracing with right edge folded in twice [right side of album page]
• 41.8 x 66 cm
• [on recto of tracing] 'Woman playing and dancing. / 19th (or perhaps 10th) July 1843 [lower part of date lost]' (pencil note)
• [on verso of tracing] '9' (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 xliv [lower].

• TopBib i2.16-17(1).I.