New York. Metropolitan musuem of art · New York [The Gilliss press · leaf 186
s a frame containing photographs of similarcapitals in Greece and Italy. This is one of the clearestinstances of the continuance of a Greek design in Copticart. The design may be traced to a time at least as 154 THE NINTH ROOM early as the date of the great altar of Zeus at Pergamon,in which a… … -^ FIG. 64. COPTIC SCULPTURED FRIEZESV-VII CENTURIES A. D. of pieces from Sakkara that retain their color the ribsof the palm leaves are indicated, but, curiously, a divi-sion is made at the mid-rib and two half-leaves of onecolor alternate with two of a contrasting color, thusfalsifying the…
Art -- Egypt · Egypt -- Antiquities
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