independent taste. It seems likely, therefore, thatthe more carefully wrought of these ivories were imported fromabroad, either from Egypt itself, or from its imitator, Phoenicia.In the fragments we have already figured (Vol. I. Figs. 1 29 and 130)the features and head-dresses are easily recognized… … s :c--At Fig. 57.—Ivory tablet in the British Museum. Drawn by Saint-blme Gautier. are Egyptian in every detail. Their attitudes and symmetricalarrangement ; their robes and head coverings ; the action of theirhands, one raised in adoration, the other holding the hare-headedstaff; the crux ansata…
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