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 36
ak of a spiral with definiteness. These detached spirals continued in usein the Xllth dynasty, generallyas loose links, often not hook-ing together, as in this ofUsertesen II. In the XVIIIthdynasty this is still found as ageneral surface ornament on the boat coversof Hatshepsut at Deir al Bahri and… … 22 EGYPTIAN DECORATIVE ART and regularity. Such care Indicates thatthe design was a novelty, which was notyet stereotyped and reproduced as a matterof course. In no later reign were spiralsever so beautifully and perfectly executed.This type was revived under AmenhotepII. (H. S. 1097). In about the…
Decorative arts -- Egypt · Decoration and ornament -- Egypt
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