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 290
hen civil war andforeign invasion hadbrought Egypt to theverge of ruin, art alsosuffered and rapidlydeclined. It ismelancholy to watchthe downward pro-gress under the laterRamessides, in thewell scenes of theroyal tombs, in thereliefs in the templeof Khonsii, or on the /?columns 01 the hypo- Astyle… … Fig. 218.—Head of Horemheb 264 PAINTING xVND SCULrTURE. internal dissensions at length completed the ruin ofThebes, and of the school which had produced somany masterpieces. That the school of Tanis stillpersisted as late as the Twenty-first Dynasty isproved by the fine group of the two Niles now…
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