New York. Metropolitan musuem of art · New York [The Gilliss press · leaf 83
that the forms of the gods, for instance,should be represented in the old way; and we evenhave evidence, from the work of the museums expe-dition at Lisht, that direct copies, line for line, were 51 A HANDBOOK OF THE EGYPTIAN ROOMS made of Old Kingdom temple-reliefs for use in MiddleKingdom… … FIG. 22. BURIAL CHAMBER OF SENBTESXII DYNASTY old type of closed mastaba. It is in this brilliantperiod of the twelfth dynasty that one regrets, moreperhaps than at any other time, the manner in whichEgyptian art was crippled by its blind adherence totradition and fixed canons. When we consider…
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