arlyEmpire to make a faithful copyof his august model. Among the monuments of faith-ful portraiture which this periodhas left us the statues of Thothmes III. are conspicuous. Thefeatures of this prince are to be recognized in a standing figureat Boulak (Fig. 214), but they are much more strongly… … Fig. 214.—Thothmes III. Boul.ik. Granite. A History of Art in Ancient Egypt. The features seem in no way Egj-ptian. The form of the nose,the upturned corners of the eyes, the curves of the Hps, and thegeneral contours of the face are all suggestive of Armenian blood.^Others have thought it showed…
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