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The arts and crafts of ancient Egypt (1909)

Petrie, W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders), Sir, 1853-1942 · London, Edinburgh, T. N. Foulis · leaf 52

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st. The blackgranite work comes next in quality, having finecurves but not quite the same freedom, owing to thecoarser grain. The diorite has a beautiful grain forwork, but the hardness has influenced the detail ofrecesses, and it is seldom that inner angles are astruly worked out as in the black… … IH

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