Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916 · New York, Charles Scribner's Sons · leaf 187
aritsakroattach themselves to a Pharaoh inorder to protect him (Fig. 301). Allthese are in stone, sometimes life-size, and show a facility of inventionand a flexibility of execution weshould hardly look for in the secondTheban period. Wood was less infavour for statues than formerly, savefor those… … FIG. 323. —SENNKFER, HIS WII- E AND DAUfiHTER (Museum, Cairo). (Phot. E. Brugsch.) THE SECOND THEBAN AGE industrial art wliich demanded the human fig^ure, such, for in-stance , as the bearers of jars of kohol; here, the number ofnew forms is considerable : foreignslaves bowed beneath a sack or a…
Art -- Egypt · Egypt -- Antiquities
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