Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916 · New York, Charles Scribner's Sons · leaf 115
their hegemony lasted from fifteen totwenty centuries, almost without interruption. The first periodwas a term of feudality, during which the local tyrants exercisedin their own domains and the fiefs attached to them an author-ity almost as complete as that of the suzerain dynasty. Memphis,fallen… … and Upper Egypt, Heracleopolis, Minyeh, Hermopolis, Cusae, Siut,Abydos, Coptos, Thebes, and Elephantine, mingled more and more happily with the artistic lifeof the nation. They became forthe most part the seats of specialschools, some of which derivedfrom the Thinite or Memphite, whileothers were…
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