executed forRameses II., those ofAbydos were more elegantand refined than those ofThebes. How, then, are we toexplain the error committedby Plato, and by him trans-mitted to posterity ? Theexplanation is easy. TheGreeks visited Egypt toolate in its history to form atrue judgment. In Platostime the… … Fio Jo.—The Lady Nai. Wooden st.-itue fromthe 19th or 20th dynasty. Louvre. trymg Change Observable in Egyptian Art. 77 were to be abandoned, and they were to finally succumb tosovereigns of foreign blocd. Their still brilliant civilization mightdeceive a passing stranger, but the decadence had…
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