Egypt and western Asia in the light of recent discoveries (1907)
King, L. W. (Leonard William), 1869-1919 · London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge · leaf 374
TOMBSTONE OF AN EGYPTIAN ARTIST 331 peculiar style of these reliefs was previously unknown. In connection with them a most interesting possibility presents itself. We know the name of the chief artist of Mentuhetep’s reign. He was called Mertisen, and he thus describes himself on his tombstone from… … I knew my art, how to represent the forms of going forth and returning, so that each limb may be in its proper place. I knew how the figure of a man should walk and the carriage of a woman, the poising of the arm to bring the hippopotamus low, the going of the runner. I knew how to make amulets,…
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