The alabaster sarcophagus of Oimeneptah I., king of Egypt : now in Sir John Soane's Museum, Lincoln's Inn Fields (1864)
Sharpe, Samuel, 1799-1881, Bonomi, Joseph, 1796-1878 · London : Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green · leaf 14
eir bearers feltany love for their gods. Other sculptures on the walls are nearly the same as those which Avenow examine at our leisure on the sarcophagus. The sarcophagus, for the sake of which this beautiful tomb hadbeen tunnelled into the limestone rock, and the broken pieces of itscover,… … Fig. 2. 4 THE SARCOPHAGUS OF OIMENEPTHAH I. Together with the broken pieces of the Ud, Belzoni brought out ofthe tomb a piece of alabaster, part of a square box or chest, ornamentedwith a female figure, standing at the corner, Avhose arms are stretchedout backwards, so that each arm lies on one of…
Seti I, King of Egypt · Tombs -- Egypt · Sarcophagi -- Egypt · Alabaster sculpture -- Egypt · Inscriptions, Egyptian
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