"‘The goddess of the marshes’, from Beni Hasan tomb no. 3, of Khnumhotep II, was painted by Carter in 1895. Many of the details reproduced for the published volumes were painted by Carter and Percy Brown in 1895, after the Survey had been put on hold. Carter was still working Read More →
"Hieroglyphic signs could be used to convey either the sense of words or their abstract phonetic components, and in their simplest form were rendered simply in outline, or in cursive, handwritten forms, with little visual similarity to the pictorial originals. Here, however, it is noticeable that the artists who designed Read More →
"The hoopoe shown here, was painted by Carter, and comes from the bush on the other side of the net, in the scene of Khnumhotep catching birds. The difference in the respective styles, and indeed intentions of the Survey’s artists is evident in the contrast between the bird shown here Read More →
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