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Museum of antiquity; a description of ancient life: the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, places, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1887)

Yaggy, L. W, Haines, Thomas L · Des Moines, Iowa : G.S. Cline · leaf 662

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conventional devices, the lotus flowers, the sphinxes, andother fabulous animals, as well as the early Medusas head, witha protruding tongue, of the oldest Greek pottery and sculptures,and the ibex, leopard, and above all the (Nile) goose and sun,on the vases, show them to be connected with, and… … ANCIENT ART AND LITERATURE. 645 646 FINE ARTS. nation most advanced in art led the taste, and though some hadsufficient invention to alter what they adopted, and to render ittheir own, the original idea may still be traced whenever it hasbeen derived from a foreign source. Egypt was long the…

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