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Art in Egypt (1912)

Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916 · New York, Charles Scribner's Sons · leaf 185

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illustrated record ofa battle, it is, after all, the onlymeans of giving a kind of unityto the decoration. Progress in less apparent insculpture, and it was long sup-posed that here artists had merelycarried on the Memphite tradition,while falsifying and degrading it.We so often recognise the… … FKi. 3ig. —COLOSSAL (iHOl^l OF AMENOPHIS HI. AND THI (Museum, Cairo). (Phot. E. Brugscli.) THE SECOND THEBAN AGE JHH|M, m^^^^ m mk fe^ ]^^^^^^BSL^y *~ i .3 FIG 320.—THE TWO COLOSSAL FIGURESOF MEMNOX AT THEBES. (Phot. Beato.J the erect fig^ure, sovereign or subject, receivinir homage. He stands…

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