Drawings Egyptian deities
Object number
LDSAL2020.19.99
Artist/Designer/Maker
Pettigrew, Thomas Joseph - Attributed To
Production date
1837
1838
1838
Material
Paper
Pen
Ink
Wash
Pen
Ink
Wash
Technique
Drawing
Dimensions
Height: 180mm
Width: 204mm
Width: 204mm
Location
Burlington House -
Inscriptions
Inscription content
Kebhnsnof Smof Amset Hapée
Found inclosed within the 4 bandaged portions containing the Viscera of the mummy of Pet-maut-iohmes.
Sept. 1837.
Found inclosed within the 4 bandaged portions containing the Viscera of the mummy of Pet-maut-iohmes.
Sept. 1837.
References
Reference (free text)
T J Pettrigrew, 'Account of the Examination of the Mummy of Pet-Maut-Ioh-Mes, Brought from Egypt by the late John Gosset, Esq. and Deposited in the Museum in the Island of Jersey', Archaeologia 27 (1838): 262-73.Illustration (Engraving), fig. 3, pl. XXI, opp. p. 268.
Reference (free text)
Thomas Joseph Pettigrew, 'On the Deities of the Amenti, as Found in Egyptian Mummies', Archaeologia 34 (1852): 392-3.
Pen and watercolour drawing on paper. The drawing shows the figures of four Egyptian gods. They are the gods known as the four sons of Horus: Qebehsenuf, Duamutef, Amset, and Hapi.
Pen and watercolour drawing on paper. The drawing shows the figures of four Egyptian gods. They are the gods known as the four sons of Horus: Qebehsenuf, Duamutef, Amset, and Hapi. The figures shown in the drawing were found with the embalmed organs of the mummy found in the mummy case shown in LDSAL2020.19.90 and LDSAL2020.19.91.
The mummy case was brought from Egypt to Jersey by John Gosset in 1835. This is one of four drawings of the mummy case and its contents in the Society's 'Eastern Antiquities' album. The others are
LDSAL2020.19.90, LDSAL2020.19.91, and LDSAL2020.19.101.
A handwritten inscription on the drawing reads:
Kebhnsnof Smof Amset Hapée
Found inclosed within the 4 bandaged portions containing the Viscera of the mummy of Pet-maut-iohmes.
Sept. 1837.
The mummy case was brought from Egypt to Jersey by John Gosset in 1835. This is one of four drawings of the mummy case and its contents in the Society's 'Eastern Antiquities' album. The others are
LDSAL2020.19.90, LDSAL2020.19.91, and LDSAL2020.19.101.
A handwritten inscription on the drawing reads:
Kebhnsnof Smof Amset Hapée
Found inclosed within the 4 bandaged portions containing the Viscera of the mummy of Pet-maut-iohmes.
Sept. 1837.
