erial as granite, these frank and fearless eyes, thatslender nose with its refined nostrils, and these lips, which areso soft and full of vitality, that they seem modelled in nothingharder than wax. We are in presence of one of the finest relicsof Egyptian sculpture, and nothing more exquisite has… … v-i^ r^At .:,:ii^iff?^ Fig. 222.—Statue of Rameses II. in the Turin Museum. Granite. Drawn by Sainl-Elme Gautie: 26o A History of Art in Ancient Egypt. produced by the art of any other people. The inscription is mutilatedby a fissure in the granite, but Mariette believes that the statuerepresents…
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