Type of Work / Object
Drawing
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Location
Inventory Number
D1186
Catalogue Number
D1186Catalogue Level / Collection
Thorvaldsen's Collections > Collection of Drawings (D)
Dimension
- Height 478 mm
- Width 135 mm
Inscription / Certification / Label
Why did Caglior[?] talk of a / Connection between Mecca / and the Egyptian Temples? / It resembles the Beit Allah / more than any Egyptian / Temples where Figures remain? / I: Is not this Hieroglyphic which, with so much Probability / you call a Temple; evidentlly the famous Beit Allah of Mecca? May / not that have been of Egyptian Origin, and have Hieroglyphici within, the / plain without, like the Temple at Sevali, and that at Jerusalem. The Inside / and Outside both are generally covered - May not the black Stone [?] be Egyptian ? / as well as Mahomet's at B[?]kType
Inscription
Art Form / Craft
Draftsmanship / Drawing