Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 97
thecrudest realism;2 where the aimis primarily religious, the con-ventional forms of a hieraticsymbolism. As the Hellenisticfoundation is forgotten, there isa progressive loss of life andnatural power, a return, if upona lower plane, to the formalismof the ancient monarchy. Inornament the losses… … Fig. 41. Eestoration of open-work design incentre of a silver lamp-disk of the sixth centuryfrom Lampsacus. (British Museum.) Cf. Fig. 40. decoration. But in this field Egypt seems to have early fallen under theinfluence of Syria and Persia (Mesopotamia). Glazed pottery of the firstcentury is…
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