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Handbook to the antiquities in the British Museum : being a description of the remains of Greek, Assyrian, Egyptian and Etruscan art preserved there, with numerous illustrations (1851)

Vaux, W. S. W. (William Sandys Wright), 1818-1885 · London : Murray · leaf 319

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oni succeededin moving the statue to the river side, and in conveying it in safetyto Alexandria. This statue deserves to take the first rank among the works ofEgyptian art. The actual height of the fragment is nearly ninefeet, and that of the whole figure when entire was ])robably notless than… … No. 15. 302 EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES. young man, with a broad and well-defined chest, and a beard which,united in one mass, adheres to the chin ; a singular form observablein many of the monuments of Egypt, which has led Belzoni to sup-pose that the ancient people wore their beards in cases. On…

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