drawing
- Museum number
- 2012,5033.70
- Description
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Interior of the only painted tomb at Teuchira, with two men and a cauldron on the right
Watercolour, heightened with white, on a sheet of paper stuck down onto a sheet of card
- Production date
- 1861
- Dimensions
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Height: 361 millimetres (mount)
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Height: 156 millimetres
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Width: 533 millimetres (mount)
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Width: 253 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Robert Murdoch Smith and Edwin Augustus Porcher, 'History of the Recent Discoveries at Cyrene, made during an Expedition ot the Cyrenaica in 1860-61, under the auspices of Her Majesty's government' (London, 1864), p.65:
'Outside the city are a number of quarries, in the sides of which there are many excavated tombs. These are generally plain chambers, devoid of ornament of any kind; a few, however, are painted, and some of them contain inscriptions cut on small faces sunk in the face of the rock, which have a remarkable resemblance to mural tablets in churches at the present day…’
Dorothy M. Thorn, 'The Four Seasons of Cyrene: The Excavation and Explorations in 1861 of Lieutenants R. Murdoch Smith, R.E. and Edwin A. Porcher, R.N.' (Rome, 2007), pp.181-204
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1894
- Acquisition notes
- See Officers Reports 7 June 1894
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 2012,5033.70