Lane-Poole, Stanley, 1854-1931 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 180
so the Muslim pulpits. It is historically ascertained thatthe Copts were the most skilful of the artists of Egypt, and wereemployed by the Mohammadans to execute some of their mosques;and when the excellence of the carvings in the Coptic churchesis considered, it is not unnatural to assume that… … FIG. 54.—I.ATTICE-WORK. (South Kensington Museum.) panel-carving that examples of Coptic carving should be oundearlier than any in the mosques, but in this respect theevidence is not convincing. Mr. Butler states, for example,that the screen of the convent of Abu-s-Seyfeyn, near Cairo,dates from…
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