Handbook of archaeology, Egyptian - Greek - Etruscan - Roman (1867)
Westropp, Hodder M. (Hodder Michael), -1884 · London, Bell and Daldy · leaf 235
divided into brown reds, and brick-coloured reds, andare composed of a brown-red oxide of iron mixed with lime. Thegreens are a mixture of a yellow vegetable pigment with a copperblue. The blueish-green colour sometimes observed on Egyptianantiquities is a faded copper-blue. The yellows appear to… … AN AKTIST SEATED. ,or gypsum. Madder also appears to have been used, at least forthe reddish coloured dye of the mummy cloths. These colours wereused on the hardest and softest stones, on wood, linen, and papyrus.The sculptures of the most ancient temples were coloured. Thetombs of the kings…
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