Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916 · New York, Charles Scribner's Sons · leaf 96
of a private workshop, andthe style is so rough and heavy thatwe might naturally suppose it to beearlier than the Pharaoh. But closeexamination shows that its short-comings are due less to archaism thanto provincial clumsiness, and I holdthe same opinion of the granite statueNo. 1 at Cairo (Fig.… … ;. 143.—thp: alabasterchkhhren at cairo(Phot. E. Brugsch.) ART IN EGYPT Sakkarah and Gizeh scattered in European museums. The mostfamous are the Sapui and the Nasi in the Louvre (Fig. 138),but there are others at Turin (Fig. 139), atNaples, at Munich, at Brussels (Fig. 140)and at Leyden. They have…
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