lyancient land, a searchfor any such articles ofvalue would be as un-certain as looking forwater in the desert ofGobi. But in additionto the sparse yield ofactual specimens of thecraft in museums andprivate collections, theseeker may scan withmore or less profit theremarkable wall paint-ings and… … -which constitute the multiple gods of theirhierarchy. Following this impulse towardsportrayal, which wasprompted by t h edeeplj -rooted convic-tion in the mind of theEgyptian that life afterdeath was as real andas fleshly as life on thisearth, and the detailedvisualization of bothexistences, the…
Art · Decoration and ornament
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![An illustration from Catalogue des monuments et inscriptions de l'Égypte antique / publié sous les auspices de S.A. Abbas II Helmi par la direction générale du Service des antiquités [de l'Égypte] ; par J. de Morgan, U. Bouriant, G. Legrain, G. Jéquier, A. Barsanti (1894)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-cataloguedesmonu21egyp-340-666.webp)
