th that of a cow. We do not refuse to accept this explanation, but yet we mayexpress our surprise that the Egyptians, who were able, even In The Egyptian Religion and the Plastic Arts. 59 the days of the ancient empire, to endow the statues of their kingswith so much purity and nobihty of form,… … Fig. 39.—Sekhet. Louvre. (Granite. Height o50 metres.) the Sphin.x, and a few others, in which the human face is allied tothe wings of a bird, and the trunk and posterior membersof the most graceful and powerful of quadrupeds. But could anynotion be more unhappy than that of crowning the bust of a…
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