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Art in Egypt (1912)

Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916 · New York, Charles Scribner's Sons · leaf 292

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527) orof the gardenwhere the soul wassupposed to shel-ter during the heatof the day, a groupof date-palms andsycamores very hastily painted. It was the same with the coffinsand cartonnages. For these the Theban artists continued to invent, 270 wm 1 ^R-?-/^ _^H| ^^■■fera^ B»^kk^9 IBhIh FIG. 5TQ. —… … FIG. t;20.-BAS-RFXTEF OF PSA^nrFTIKXTFISASHlsrr (Mdseum, Cairo). (Phot.E.Brugsch.) the whole body, with all the details of the costume, the wig,the plain or pleated skirt, the gauze robe, the sandals, so thatit has the appearance of a statue of the defunct, lying in state.Towards the end of the…

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