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A handbook of the Egyptian rooms .. (1918)

New York. Metropolitan musuem of art · New York [The Gilliss press · leaf 86

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column, thescarab, the spiral as a motive in design, and the prom-inent use of a number of hitherto practically unknownstones, such as blue marble, amethyst, green jasper,and hematite. Middle Kingdom art is particularly well representedin our Collection, for it was upon a site of this periodthat… … A HANDBOOK OF THE EGYPTIAN ROOMS and of his son Senusert I, first and second kings of thetwelfth dynasty. The pyramids are about a miledistant one from the other, and the ground aroundthem and between them is occupied by contemporaryand slightly later tombs of nobles and private indivi-duals. Work…

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