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A history of art in ancient Egypt (1883)

Perrot, Georges, 1832-1914, Chipiez, Charles, 1835-1901, Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 148

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The Egyptian ReliCxIon and the Plastic Arts. 65 The worship of the hawk, the vulture, and the ibis, had, then,preceded by many centuries that of the gods who correspond tothe personages of the Hellenic pantheon. Rooted by long customin the minds of the people, it did not excite the ire of the wise … Fig. 44.—IIoru> ; from a brouzc iu the Posuo collection. (Height 38 inches.) men of Heliopolis or Thebes. The doctrine of emanation andof successive incarnations of the deity, permitted their theology to and deafened by birds, why he patiently suffers the insolence of the crow perchedupon the…

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