Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916 · New York, Charles Scribner's Sons · leaf 37
ere executedby workmen, with small pretensions to art,yet the technique is already so refinedthat it almost compels us to assume theexistence of a more skilful class of crafts-men for aristocratic patrons. An exami-nation of the royal stelae justifies thishypothesis. They are regular in… … FIG. .^5. —STELE OF QA-AU(Museum, Cairo.)(Phot. E. Brugsch.) THINITE ART the tombs, they both simulated the entrance door of the sepulchralvault, and served as indications to posterity of the identity ofthe Pharaohs buried behind them. Thus on all of them we findthe same symbol, the falcon of…
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