Perrot, Georges, 1832-1914, Chipiez, Charles, 1835-1901, Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 149
which, to us, seemso differently constituted and sounequal in dignity. The deitytook the form of an animal andrevealed himself in it, just as he tookthat of a man, or of a statue whichhe was supposed to animate, and to which he was attached. Inone of his most curious and most penetrating essays, M,… … Fig. 45.- •Thoth. Louvre. ICnamtlledclay. Actual size. The Egyptian Religion and the Plastic x\rts. 67 dotibh\ to use an expression dear to the Egyptians. At Memphis,Apis repeated and constantly renewed the Hfe of Ptah ; he was,in a word, his living statue.^ Egyptian art was, then, the faithful and…
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