Handbook of archaeology, Egyptian - Greek - Etruscan - Roman (1867)
Westropp, Hodder M. (Hodder Michael), -1884 · London, Bell and Daldy · leaf 142
o-called Memnon, now in the British Museum. It issupposed to be the statue of Rameses II. It was brought by Belzonifrom the Memnonium at Thebes. In the different epochs of Egyptian sculpture, the Egyptianartists wore bound by certain fixed canons or rules of proportion to 120 IIANDB0OK OF… … COLOSSAL FIGURE OF RAMESES II. at 6 feet from the sole of the foot to the crown of the head, andsubdivisions obtained by one-half or one-third of a foot. 2. Thecanon from the twelfth to the twenty-second dynasty is only anextension of the first. The whole figure was contained in a number SCULPTURE.…
Art, Ancient · Archaeology
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![An illustration from Catalogue des monuments et inscriptions de l'Égypte antique / publié sous les auspices de S.A. Abbas II Helmi par la direction générale du Service des antiquités [de l'Égypte] ; par J. de Morgan, U. Bouriant, G. Legrain, G. Jéquier, A. Barsanti (1894)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-cataloguedesmonu22egyp-24-30.webp)
