haracteristics of his physi-ognomy. It aspired to portraiture ; andthe development of writing allowed the name and qualities of the deceased to be inscribed upon his statue.Thus identified by its resemblance and its inscriptions it served toperpetuate the life of the double, which was in continual… … Fig. S7.—Mummy case fromthe iSth dynasty. Boulak. 138 A History of Art in Ancient Egypt. chance of duration to the double; twenty statues representedtwenty chances more. Hence the astonishing number of statueswhich are sometimes found in a single tomb. The images of thedead were multipHed by the…
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