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Art in Egypt (1912)

Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916 · New York, Charles Scribner's Sons · leaf 122

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1S7. —PAINTKI) INTERIOR OF THE TOMH OF UHETEP (Museum, Cairo). (Phot. E. Brugsdi.) THE FIRST THEBAN AGE prism, and by rejDcating the process on this, they obtained a f)rism of sixteen facets; these polygonal shafts, imbedded in aow base rounded to a disc, … FIG. IS8. —PAlNTIX(i WITHOUT A SClLFTrKKI) (iROlM) (Museum, Cairo). (Phot. E. Brugsch.) and completed by a squareabacus uniting them to thearchitrave, constitute whatChampollion calls by a roughanalogy primitive Doric. Theyappear first at Beni-Hasan,side by side with lotiformcapitals of a…

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