2-751-356 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

House of General Ramose at Tell el-Amarna, Egypt, (1928). 'Attempt at a coloured restoration of the "Deep Hall" in the house of General Râ-Mose [Ramose] at Tell el-Amarna, c1370 B.C...the house of General Râ-Mose and his wife 'Inet was excavated during the winter of 1913-1914...the house...may have been built between 1370 and 1360 B.C.' After a watercolour by Ludwig Borchardt. Plate II from "An Encyclopaedia of Colour Decoration from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the XIXth Century" with explanatory text by Helmuth Bossert. [Ernst Wasmuth Ltd., Berlin, 1928]