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Byzantine art and archaeology (1911)

Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 96

An illustration from Byzantine art and archaeology, 1911, leaf 96
ley B. Coxe Junior Expedition), Philadelphia, 1910. EGYPT 71 But there was another Egypt of which the same cannot be said. Fromthe establishment of a Greek kingdom in the Delta of the Nile, the land ofEgypt had begun a silent revolt against the invading culture. The reactionwas already powerful… … Fig. 40. Silver lamp-disk (polycandelon) of the sixth century from Lainpsacus.(British Museum.) Cf. Fig. 41. P. 567. time of the Arab invasion. It was otherwise with the inland country.After the revolt of Thebes in 85 B.C. and the ensuing troubles, UpperEgypt became more and more an agricultural…

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