Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · New York, J. Wiley · leaf 439
er, and in defiance of alllaws of perspective. In the fresco, No. 170., we have the representation of a river withpapyrus on its bank. Here the water is rendered by zigzag lines ar-ranged vertically and in parallel lines, so as to resembleherring-bone masonry, thus. There are fish in thisfresco as… … APPENDIX, 21. 421 in their hieroglyphic writing, where the sign of water is a zigzag line ;this line is, so to speak, a picture of water written in short hand. In theEgyptian Pantheon there was but one aquatic deity, the god of the Nile 5his type is, therefore, the only figurative representation of…
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