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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 391

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wards played an importantpart in Greek and Roman ornament—namely, the skull of an ox.The two specimens of this last-named motive given by Prisse, aretaken from tombs of the eighteenth and twentieth dynasties. These tombs and the mummy cases they contain are oftendecorated with symbolic ornament, as… … Fig. 2S5.—Carpet hung across a pavilion.

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