Perrot, Georges, 1832-1914, Chipiez, Charles, 1835-1901, Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 159
forRameses II,, those ofAbydos were more elegantand refined than those ofThebes. How, then, are we toexplain the error committedby Plato, and by him trans-mitted to posterity ? Theexplanation is easy. TheGreeks visited Egypt toolate in its history to form atrue judgment. In Platostime the Egyptians… … Fig, 50.—Tlie Lady Nai. Wouden statue fromthe 19th or 20th dynasty. Louvre. Change Observable in Egyptian Art. were to be abandoned, and they were to finally succumb tosovereiens of foreign blood. Their still brilliant civilization miorhtdeceive a passing stranger, but the decadence had commenced—a…
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