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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 173

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but his task is rendered much easier whenhe is able to point to existing monuments in support of hiscontention, and his pleasure is great in seeing the certaintyof his critical methods borne out, and Egyptian art replacingitself, as if of its own motion, under the normal conditions ofhistoric… … a series of monuments, which will bring us down to the Persian The Limits of our Inquiry. 91 conquest. This limit will hardly be over-passed in our choice ofexamples for study, and that for two reasons. The first is, that at the latter period the evolution of Egyptianart was complete, it had…

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