History of ancient, early Christian, and mediaeval painting (1906)
Woltmann, Alfred Friedrich Gottfried Albert, 1841-1880, Woermann, Karl, 1844-1933 · New York : Dodd, Mead & Co. · leaf 49
d nothing else,The scenes represented belong chiefly to the Ritual of the Dead, the writingsupon which they occur having been found for tin- most part in tombs, and constituting, in the words of Lepsius, a kind of funeral passport designed to secure for the deceased a favourable reception at tin-… … known as the Book of the Dead.-Another celebrated set of miniatures isthat which adorns a papyrus-roll foundat Thebes by the French Expeditionin 1798, and now in the Louvre. Theseries consists .of a number of ritualscenes with figures of gods, men, andanimals. It is noteworthy that thesepictures…
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