Powers, H. H. (Harry Huntington), 1859-1936 · New York : Macmillan Co. · leaf 262
hreshold often appeared the dead man himself as avividly realistic statue to receive the homage and the offeringsbrought to him there. Gradually the door becomes nominal, the recess shallower,the panels barely outlined, and inscriptions finally cross theselines with impunity. The ritual of the dead… … Fig. 100. — Egyptian Tomb Door. Museum, Cairo. 246 The Message of Greek Art the passer-by will see it, not in a hidden tomb, but by the road-side. The door thus becomes a commemorative tablet. This evolution required many centuries, but it was completedby the time of the eighteenth dynasty, when…
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