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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 217

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SCULPTURE AND PAINTING. 193 jackals, lions, etc., are found among the antiquities of classical Egypt. As we are speaking of amulets, I will quote what Dr. Petrie has said with regard to a class of objects which are in the form of bulls' heads : " The oldest form of amulet found is the bulls head. .… … Fig. 151. — Figures of Frogs and of Scorpions. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, and University College, London. muzzle form of the lower end left no doubt that it must be copied from a bull. It begins at sequence date 46, or earlier, and continues in use till sequence date 67, when it is very degraded. A…

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