"A watercolour of the head of Queen Ahmose, from the relief in the north sequence. It is one of several paintings made by Howard Carter while he was working at Deir el-Bahari. His sensitive reproduction is in the offices of the Egypt Exploration Society, but Carter subsequently made a number Read More →
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Read More →"Howard Carter is seen here supervising a group of workmen moving material cleared from the temple site in one of the Decauville cars which Naville borrowed from the Service des Antiquities along with 460 metres of tramway." – taken from ‘Deir el-Bahari’ by T G H James in The EES: Read More →
"‘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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Read More →"Howard Carter was most interested in making ‘careful coloured drawings of the more interesting and important details among these mural decorations’. This cat is part of the fishing scene and is shown balancing on the stem of a papyrus plant which is bending underneath its weight. Griffith was inclined to Read More →
"This bush filled with birds of several kinds was painted by Marcus Blackden in 1891. It comes from the same wall of the tomb of Khnumhotep as the fishing scene and is itself only part of a larger scene of the tomb owner catching birds in a net. A variety Read More →
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