eive, in his hasty journey through the Egyptian cities, thatthey too had seen their periods of change, their difterent schoolsand developments of style, less marked, perhaps, than those ofGreece, and certainly less rapid, but yet quite perceptible to thepractised observer. We are now in a better… … Fig. 54.—Artist painting a statue, Thebes. (Champollion, pi. iSo.) walls or in the depths of sepulchral pits. Even now these statueshave not reached the age of ten thousand years so persistentlyattributed by the Greek philosopher to the early works which hedid see, works which seemed to him exactly…
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![An illustration from Catalogue des monuments et inscriptions de l'Égypte antique / publié sous les auspices de S.A. Abbas II Helmi par la direction générale du Service des antiquités [de l'Égypte] ; par J. de Morgan, U. Bouriant, G. Legrain, G. Jéquier, A. Barsanti (1894)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-cataloguedesmonu21egyp-232-428.webp)
