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 309
g to the later prehistoric and earlydynastic times ; they are found also in porphyry,slate, alabaster, diorite, basalt, and other fine stonesin the temples of the Fourth and Fifth Dynasties, andthe use of them in the softer materials of alabasterand serpentine continued into the Middle… … Fig. 235.—Stone vases, predynastic and First Dynasty.Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. the cylinder seals of Babylonia. By the time of theMiddle Kingdom they were superseded by scarabs,which were employed almost universally as sealsduring the later dynasties. Of stone were also thesmall funerary obelisks…
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