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, Soane Gallery · London : Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green · leaf 12
heir bearers feltany love for their gods. Other sculptures on the walls are nearly the same as those which wenow 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,… … 4 THE SARCOPHAGUS OF OIMENEPTHAH I. Together with the broken pieces of the lid, Belzoni brought out ofthe tomb a piece of alabaster, part of a squaie box or chest, ornamentedwith a female figure, standing at the corner, whose arms are stretchedout backwards, so that each arm lies on one of the two…
Seti I, King of Egypt · Tombs · Sarcophagi · Alabaster sculpture · Inscriptions, Egyptian
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