Inside Out Library · Explore

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 130

An illustration from Egyptian decorative art : a course of lectures delivered at the Royal Institution /by W.M. Flinders Petrie, 1920, leaf 130
earlier times similar cheru-bic figures stand guardingthe name of Antef V. ona scarab. Hathor also appears on various objects.A mirror handle carved in wood duringthe Xllth dynasty has the head of Hat-hor (P. I. xili.) ; columns with heads ofHathor, crowned with a shrine occupied SYMBOLICAL… … by a uraeus, are found Introduced by Amenhotep III. in his temples at El Kab and Sedeinga, and were copied by Ramessu II. at Abu Simbel. The similar head of Hathor was frequently made in glazed pottery as a pendant in the time of Akhenaten. And in later times these Hathor headed capitals became…

Decorative arts -- Egypt · Decoration and ornament -- Egypt

Internet Archive · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.

More pictures from Egyptian decorative art : a course of lectures delivered at the Royal Institution /by W.M. Flinders Petrie

More like this