Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916 · New York, Charles Scribner's Sons · leaf 220
s carefully executed than the coffins,but they retained a certain grandeur of ap-pearance, if we may judge by the fragmentspreserved in the Cairo Museum. Among theseare figures of Thothmes III., Amenophis II.(Fig. 379) and Heru-em-heb (Fig. 380) carvedin cedar or pine-wood, then coated with pitchor… … FIG. 3HS.STATIETTE OF A NEGRESS (Petrie Collection). (Phot. Petrie.) ART IN EGYPT of workmen; I do not think that the walk of the great felineanimals, slow, supple, and restrained, has ever been more per-fectly rendered than in the figures of the leopards whichadorned the funerary chairs of…
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