Perrot, Georges, 1832-1914, Chipiez, Charles, 1835-1901, Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 226
characteristics of his physi-ognomy. It aspired to portraiture; andthe development of writing allowed the name and qualities of the deceased to be inscribed upon his statue.Thus identified by its resemblance and its inscriptions it served toperpetuate the life of the double, which was in continual… … Fig. 87.—Mummy case fromthe 18th dynasty. Boulak. 138 A History of Art ix Ancient Egypt. chance of duration to the double; twenty statues representedtwenty chances more. Hence the astonishing number of statueswhich are sometimes found in a single tomb. The images of thedead w^ere multiplied by the…
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