- Title:
- Funerary offerings, tomb of Merab, Tomb no. 24, Gizeh
- Object name(s):
- Picture
- Collection:
- Senate House Library
- Comments:
- Signed with initials; dated 1895. Framed and glazed. Previously described as "Egyptian frieze with figures and hieroglyphics" and as "Great funeral procession". From Berlin, Royal Museum. Dyn. IV. See Lepsius, III, 19. Animals represented: orynx, addox, bull. The artist, Reginald Rye, was the second and the longest-serving Librarian of the University of London (1906-1944).
- Dimension:
- 33 x 64 cm
- Material:
- pen and watercolour
- Normal location:
- Senate House
- Object history note:
- Reginald Arthur Rye; given by his widow as a memorial (offer 1946; rec. 1948. See LC min. 242, 13 May 1948)
- Object name:
- Picture
- Object number:
- PW-0067
- Object production date:
- 1895
- Object production person:
- Rye, Reginald Arthur
- Person's association:
- Artist
- Person's birth date:
- 1876-1945
- Person's gender:
- M
- Person's nationality:
- English
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/8048d615-ea82-342c-976f-2a24cb450d24
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/8048d615-ea82-342c-976f-2a24cb450d24, Senate House Library, CC BY-NC
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