Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 87
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 completed inthe reign of Amenemhat III. (B.C. 2300-2266). The sameking built the celebrated Labyrinth, the… … Fig. 92.—Colossi of Amenophii 111. Statues of Memnon at Thebes. (P. & C.) EGYPTIAN ART. 67 teenth Dynasties are dark periods in which the invasionof the Elamites andthe Nomad tribes fromSyria and WesternAsia took place. TheFifteenth and Six-teenth Dynasties arethe Hyksos dynas-ties. The Hyksos,…
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