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Art in Egypt (1912)

Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916 · New York, Charles Scribner's Sons · leaf 78

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Heracleopolisin Abydos, to Akhmim,to Kau-el-Kebir, to Siut,to Beni - Mohammed-el-Kufur, to Kom-el-Ahmar,everywhere save at Her-mopolis. Hcrmopolis, thecity of Thoth, had beenfrom the most remoteanticjuity, a centre of religious speculation, where theories asto the creation of beings and the essence… … FIG. 103.—A PRIXCE OF ELKPHAN-TIXE. (Phot. J. de Morgan.) borated; nevertheless, having arrived at reflection and a systemafter Heliopolis, it had, in the main accepted the doctrines and funerary decorations of the latter, and its originality is revealed to us less by the concept it may have formed…

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