Manual of Egyptian archæology and guide to the study of antiquities in Egypt. For the use of students and travellers (1914)
Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916, Johns, Agnes Sophia Griffith, 1859- · New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons; London, H. Grevel and Co. · leaf 280
the body and neckmore slender. Works of this period of the MiddleKingdom are not to be compared with the bestproductions of the earlier centuries. The wall-paintings of Siut, of Bersheh, of Beni Hasan, andof Assuan are not equal to those of Saqqara andGizeh ; nor are the most carefully executed… … Fig. 211.—The dwarf Nemhotep, Old Kingdom. in 1900 is a very vigorous and effective piece of work.Man} of the royal statues of this period that wepossess have been usurped by later sovereigns.Senusert III., whose head and feet are in the Louvre,was appropriated by Amenhotep III., and the sphinx 254…
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