Petrie, W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders), Sir, 1853-1942 · London, Edinburgh, T. N. Foulis · leaf 60
egs and arms separate, and a passable amountof modelling in the head and body. Though quiteof prehistoric style, they are probably influenced bythe school of highly developed ivory-work of the1st dynasty, and may shortly precede that time. The early dynastic age brought in entirely newideals. The… … Prehistoric figures in the round THE STATUARY cised on them (see fig. 51). Just before the 1stdynasty there came a finely developed style of ivory-carving, which is known to us by the many figuresof men and women found at Hierakonpolis. Thefinest stone-work of that age is a study in limestoneof a…
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