Tomb-Painting

Tomb-Painting

A fragment of tomb painting from a tomb in the "Valley of the Queens" at Luxor, taken by GH Bourne in early 1915 and said to be "5000 years old". In a letter to his mother in March 1915 Bourne says: "it had broken off so it was not vandalism... The colour was quite vivid when I got it but it has crumbled & faded very much since." This artefact was sent home to Australia in March 1915 but its current whereabouts is unknown. Bourne acquired other artefacts by purchase from the Cairo Museum or other vendors, and also took items natural history interest from elsewhere in Egypt, along with several replica antiquities.

1550 BC - 1077 BC

C.015.008

Collected by Maj. George Herbert Bourne, Vallery of the Queens, Luxor, Feb-Mar 1915.

Bourne, GH. (1915). OM68-25 George Herbert Bourne Papers 1846-195. State Library of Queensland, Brisbane. OM68-25-14

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Mr James Donaldson