Lane-Poole, Stanley, 1854-1931 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 181
ile the doors at El-Adra, in the Nitrian valley,are stated to be certainly of the eighth century ; and if this beaccepted, there can be no further question as to the origin of theart of panel-carving and inlaying in Cairo. The Coptic churchesare mostly earlier than the tenth century, and must have… … FIG. 55.—LATTICE-WORK. (South Kensington Museum.) the fine stucco designs of Ibn-Tulun, which was built by a Copticarchitect in the ninth century, point to a skill in working plasterornament even then. It was, moreover, natural that the Copts, theold inhabitants of Egypt, should have early…
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