Newberry, Percy E. : Beni Hasan (Band 2) (London, 1893)

FORMER DESCRIPTIONS AND COPIES.

The tomb was first described by

JOMAED in 1798 (.Description de VEgypte, Antiq., Tome iv., pp. 335-347). In March, 1825,
it was visited by

JAMES BURTON (Diary, 1825, March 12-15, Brit. Mus. Add. MS. No. 25637, ff. 2, 4, 73);
and three years later by the members of the Franco-Tuscan Expedition under

CHAMPOLLION and ROSELLINI (Tomb of "Menophth," Champollion's Lettres writs,
p. 42; Monuments, pis. ccclxx., ccclxxii., &c.; Notices, Tome ii., ff. 359-384; Papiers
de Champollion, Supplement, 36, ff. 129-200, in the Bibl. Nat. Paris; Kosellini's
/ Monumenti delV Egitto e delta Nubia, II. Mon. civili, pis. ix., x., xiv., &c, and
MS8. in the Library of the University at Pisa). A few of the scenes were traced by

ROBERT HAT in 1828 (see his journal in Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 29857, ff. 97-120, and copies
in Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 29850, ff. 346, 347, &c). Small scale copies of some of the
paintings were made by

WILKINSON in 1834 (Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians, ed. 1878, vol. i.,
pp. 203, 305, &c, vol. ii., pp. 112, 234, &c.); and in 1842

LEPS1US made copies of some of the inscriptions (see MSS. at Berlin and Denkmaler,
Abth. ii., Bl. 142, e,f, g).