Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916 · New York, Charles Scribner's Sons · leaf 33
And as the gods could only be served by the Pharaoh or one of his family, on every occasion when the help of an inferior was not indispensable, we see around them on the walls only kings and queens, princes and princesses; these noble personages, however, were not obliged to perform the vulgar… … 27 — SK.ATKnSTATlEOFIHAHAOH MVCKHINUS.(Museum, Cairo.)(Phot. E. Brugsch.) THINITE ART the ox decked for the holocaust, water,wine, milk, and oil poured for libation,the incense lighted for sacramental fumi-gation. Nothing could be less like thevaried episodes of human life whichabound in the…
Art -- Egypt · Egypt -- Antiquities
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