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Primitive art in Egypt (1905)

Capart, Jean, 1877-1947, Johns, Agnes Sophia (Griffith), Mrs., 1850-, Freer, Charles Lang, 1854-1919, former owner. DSI-F · London : H. Grevel · leaf 121

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ORNAMENTAL AND DECORATIVE ART. We must not linger here to study in detail the forms of these vases, and I will content myself with referring the reader to Petrie's remarks, and to the numerous plates on which all the forms discovered up to the present time are reproduced.1 We must turn to the… … Fig. 68. — Sceptre- or Mace-heads from Hierakonpolis. 1 Petrie, Diospolis parva, pp. 18, 19, and pi. iii. for the diagram showing the evolution of forms during the prehistoric period (Mr. Petrie tells me that he has reserved his opinion with regard to the evolution of the stone vases of cylindrical…

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