Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916 · New York, Charles Scribner's Sons · leaf 294
is supreme here inthe arrangement ofthe headdress, butthe technique isEgyptian; the sculj)-tor belonged to oneof those mixedschools whose exis-tence at Memphisand Alexandria to-wards the end ofthe Ptolemaic age Ihave already noted.The Egyptian pa-lette had enricheditself; it includedat least two… … FIG. 524-A ROOM IN THE HYPOt.ElM OF KOM-KS-SHL-GAFA. tian painters promptlyyielded to the temp-tation to paint por-traits or decoratewalls in the mannerof the works they sawin the Hellenic villas.We must go to theOases to find in thetemples or the hypo-gea some fragmentsof these mural paint-ings ,…
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