Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 116
Fig. 127.—Hunting in a Marsh ; from a Bas-Relief in the Tomb of Ti. (P. & C.) this form as ceiling decoration in the great temples atThebes, on a blue ground diapered with golden stars; theceilings thus are symbolic representations of the heavensat night (Fig. 128]. EGYPTIAN ART. 95 Similar… … Fi^. 12S.—Vultures on a Ceiling. (P. (i C; used as ceiling decorations in tombs and on mummy-cases, and sometimes the goddess Isis, or Nepththys, wasfurnished with these wings as guardian of the tomb(Figs. 129 and 130). »iiPijil^ti;.U!lll|iS-llii^
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