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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 267

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statues have everbeen found in a serdab. So that thefunction of the serdab was to afford a safeand final asylum to the statues. Thesewere, no doubt, to be found in othersituations also, because, not to mention thenumerous bas-reliefs upon which the figureof the deceased appeared in the chamberor in… … Fig. 116.—Flan of a mastabawith four Serdabs.(Lepsiu;, i., pi, 24.) which, especially at the time of the fourth dynasty, seem to

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