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Art in Egypt (1912)

Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916 · New York, Charles Scribner's Sons · leaf 306

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ere executedby workmen brought up in thegood school. Whereas their neigh-bours in the glass cases show therounded, flaccid forms which pleasedthe Ptolemaic sculptors, we notein them the nervous, and some-times rather dry handling of anearlier age. Of course it was notvery easy to mark the play… … FIG. 544. HARPOCRATES, OSTRTS, AND AMON. BRONZE STATUETTES (Museum, Cairo). (Phot. E. Brugsch.) ART IN EGYPT

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