the corvte e.xcept by giving presents to thesheikh of his village or the iinidir of the neicfhbouringf town. Inlaying this scene upon the wall the artist was writing a page of hisown biography and of the history of all the people about him.He revenged himself in his own way upon the greedy… … Fig. 279. —The soles of a pair of .sandals. From Champollioii. Traces of this mocking spirit are to be found in other pro-ductions of Egyptian art. Thus the soles of those leathern orwooden sandals which have come down to our times often present
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