Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916 · New York, Charles Scribner's Sons · leaf 86
ri<;. 117.—I.IJAWI- ()\ Illi; WATKR (Museum, Cairo). (Phot. K. Brugsch.) more distant episodes at the top: boatmen quarrel on a pondor a canal, fowlers snare birds in the thickets of the shore, and 68 MEMPHITE ART carpenters build boats above the fowlers, while hunters press theanimals of the… … FIG. IlS.—BRAWI. BETWT^N BOAT^rEX. TO^fB OF PTAH-HETEP. (Phot. E. Brugsch.) are awkwardnesses which we should wonder to find persistingamong the Memphites, if we did not know that at the otherextremity of the Oriental world such consummate draughtsmenas the Chinese and Japanese were long the slaves…
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