Skip to content

Home
Search
Your album
Learn more

Images

No.1 A Table of Hieroglyphics found at Axum

image credit Yale Center for British Art | Public Domain, Yale Center for British Art

Start Zooming Stop Zooming

Current search
Add To Album

Date

1771

Artist

James Bruce (1730-1794)

Collection

Yale Center for British Art

Image Link

https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:15623

Description

Credit: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Inscription

Inscribed in pen and brown ink, lower centre: "The Hieroglyphics on the ... not Cejille"; inscribed on verso in pen and brown ink, upper centre: "To be reduced to quarto size No. 1. | No 7 | all the hieroglyphics must be traced distintly on reducing the plate".

Descriptive Medium

Grey wash

Image Licence

Public Domain, Yale Center for British Art

Image Credit

image credit Yale Center for British Art

Location

Axum, Ethiopia

Country

Tags

Archaeological Sites
Historical Subjects
Ruins

Category

Buildings & Architecture

Glossary
Search tips

© 2024 Watercolour World | Technology by The Museum Platform

© 2024 Watercolour World | Technology by The Museum Platform