Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 86
ians a period of more than six hundred yearsof tribal jealousies and fighting, at the end of which Egypt Egyptian Art. ^s was consolidated from north to south, and a powerfulDynasty succeeded these internal struggles. The TwelfthDynasty was a brilliant one for the arts, and for greatworks of… … Fig. 91.—The Great Sphinx. (P. & C.) Abydos. The great artificial lake, Mauur (Moeris of theGreeks), or great water, was constructed to receive thesurplus waters of the Nile, and to control its floods. TheArabs call this lake El-Fayyum, from another of itsEgyptian names Phiom, the sea. It was…
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