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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 328

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there are two cartouches under his feot. One of tlio cartouchesbears the name, Sethci beloved of Phthah, or Menephthah.The name of the God Set or Typhon has been erased, but the ele-ments of its form are still distinct. From tills statue we may form a good estimate of the amount ofanatomical… … No. 26. EGYPTIAN SALOON. 311 straightness which is the characteristic of Egyptian sculpture in allperfect statues. In seated figures the feet are generally placednearly parallel to each other, while in those which are standing theyare generally in the same right line, one perhaps being rather…

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