New York. Metropolitan musuem of art · New York [The Gilliss press · leaf 174
-the-wayplaces, of their engineering and organizing skill, wells, 142 THE NINTH ROOM underground water conduits, watch towers, and fort-resses surviving. But the visitor to Egypt, if hestops to think of the land as a Roman province, looksin vain for any ruins of public structures, such asthe… … FIG. 58. SCULPTURED MOLDING — COPTIC.VI CENTURY A. D. they probably were never so numerous as in otherRoman lands. The minor artistic objects in a more orless pure classical style were here, as elsewhere in theRoman world, largely the work of Greeks, but withthe difference that the artists had to…
Art -- Egypt · Egypt -- Antiquities
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