Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 77
e proportion of the population ofthe lower kingdom of Egypt. It was on the north-eastfrontier, on the Isthmus of Suez, that Egypt had most tofear from her foreign enemies. Nearly all the art of the various peoples and nations ofthe world was developed in relation to their religion, andmost of it—as… … Fig. 82.—Isis nursing her Son, Horns. (P. 6c C.) Height, 19 ins. EGYPTIAN ART. 57 and this must be our plea to describe here briefly theprincipal outlines of the Egyptian religion. The religion of the Egyptians had two developments,one tending towards Monotheism, and the other to Poly-theism. They…
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