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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 247

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son trepas, Le riche a des honneurs que le pauvre na pas. Those who, when alive, had to be content with a hut of earth orof reeds, could not, when dead, expect to have a tomb of stone orbrick, a habitation for eternity ; they could not look for joys in theother world which they had been unable to… … Fig. ioo.—Lid of the coffin of Entef, nth dynasty. Louvre. of the king, the princes and nobles, the priests, the military chiefs,and functionaries of every kind down to the humblest of thescribes attached to the administration. As for those Egyptianswho did not belong to this aristocracy, they had…

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