Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916 · New York, Charles Scribner's Sons · leaf 38
has been alternatively suggested that they were moreelegant variants of the toilet palettes of the archaic age, basesfor statuettes or divine emblems, or conventionalised imitationsof the rams heads which ornamented the tombs of great personages.The Sinai bas-reliefs prove that the triumphant… … FIG. 36.—STET.E OF KING SERPENT. (The Louvre, Paris.) ART IN EGYPT on their style or artistic merit (Fig. 37). Some fifteen of thesetablets, perfect or mutilated, are in the museums of Cairo, Paris,Oxford and London. One of the best preserved of these, thatof Pharaoh Neter-baiu (Betchau), bears on…
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