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Art in Egypt (1912)

Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916 · New York, Charles Scribner's Sons · leaf 145

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aticand European influences infurniture, goldsmiths work,and pottery mark their advent;and it is not unlikely thatwe may be obliged to enlargevery greatly the share assignedto the foreigner in the consti-tution of Theban art of thesecond period, when exca-vations shall have brought tolight the… … FIG. 234.—RUIXS OF THE SECOND PYLON OF HERU-EM-HEB AT KARNAK. (Phot. Beato.) are chiefly sculpture, but thenceforward architecture predominates.Many of the temples built under the second Theban Empire still exist, more or less complete, and reveal to us its conceptions, plans, and methods of…

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