Overhead view of a sandstone extraction scene in the large quarries of Gebel Silsileh. The drawing is in portrait format. It is framed in ink.
Inscriptions and traces of watercolor are visible in the margins. Inscriptions appear on the reverse.
In the foreground, workers can be seen cutting sandstone blocks. In the distance, on
on the banks of the Nile, a boat is moored. It’s carrying loads of stone.