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Egyptian decorative art : a course of lectures delivered at the Royal Institution /by W.M. Flinders Petrie (1920)

Petrie, W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders), Sir, 1853-1942 · London : Methuen · leaf 114

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s; and thenthe whole is plastered with mud up to thetie level. Here we have the cavettocornice being formed by the nodding topsof the branches ; and to clinch the matter,the earliest representations of that corniceare on figures of buildings which showthe crossed sticks of the fence belowthe… … 100 EGYPTIAN DECORATIVE ART such was copied until late times. But inthe more decorative cornices of theXVIIIth dynasty the ribbing was broken ^ up by cross lines,

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