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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 312

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in which the Queen Mut-neter of the eighteenth dynastywas represented.^ The Egyptians were not content with confusing the figures ofmen and animals in their images of the gods, they combined thoseof quadrupeds and birds in the same fashion. Thus we some-times find wings upon the backs of gazelles… … li I I III I mil li -«-y Fig. 23S.—Sphinx witli human hands. Bas-relief; from Piisse. artists or not, we have no means of deciding. In a period whenthere was none of that scientific culture which alone enables mento distinguish the possible from the impossible, they may well havebelieved in winged…

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