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A history of art in ancient Egypt (1883)

Perrot, Georges, 1832-1914, Chipiez, Charles, 1835-1901, Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · London, Chapman and Hall, Limited · leaf 279

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Art in Ancient Egypt. well almost disappears, sometimes it ceases to be vertical andbecomes a long corridor with but a gentle slope. As a rule allthese variations are easily explained, and may be connectedwithout difficulty with that primitive type which we haveattempted to define by its most… … Fig. 126.—Head of a Mummy. Louvre. Egyptian Commission has described several rock-cut, tombs in theneighbourhood of the Pyramids, especially some which face thewestern slope of the Second Pyramid. Similar tombs are to befound near the pyramid of Mycerinus. Some of these sepulchralgrottos declare…

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