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A handbook of the Egyptian rooms .. (1918)

New York. Metropolitan musuem of art · New York [The Gilliss press · leaf 171

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r. At the right of the doorway,above, are three grave stelae of the Ptolemaic periodwith inscriptions in demotic. Below is a bust of aking, of breccia, broken from a statuette; this is alsoPtolemaic. Of the same period is the fragment oftemple relief at the left representing the head of thegoddess… … THE NINTH EGYPTIAN ROOM ROiMAN PERIOD (30 B. C.-364 A. D.) AND BYZANTINE PERIOD (364-640 A. D.) THE material in this room is nearly all of theperiod of Roman and Byzantine rule in Egypt.The exceptions are some of the smaller Ptole-maic objects, which stylistically belong here ratherthan in the…

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