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Title: A history of art in ancient Egypt
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Perrot, Georges, 1832-1914 Chipiez, Charles, 1835-1901 Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918
Subjects: Art -- Egypt History Egypt -- Antiquities
Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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Fig. 190.—A tomb of Apis. From Maiiette. 300 feet beyond the chamber without arriving at the mummypit, the air then became too bad for further progress.- The chamber for the funerary celebration is easily recognizedby its decorations. It is sometimes the first, but more often thesecond in order, in which case the first acts as a sort of vestibule.A considerable number of tombs are very simple in arrangement.The door gives access to a rectangular chamber, from 6 to 10 feethigh and 10 to 12 wide, which extends, in a direction parallel tothe wall, for from 12 to 24 feet. This chamber is the funerarychapel. From its posterior wall a passage opens which is nearly ^ This view is obtained by a series of liorizontal and vertical sections in therock to the right of the galleries. By this operation we are enabled to show thesubterranean parts of the tomb. 2 Rhind, Thebes, etc. p. 43. m
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c^ .2 > 5J C >5ex rt ocaoSrt PL. <1J 0^ VOL. I. Q Q The Tomb under the New. Empire. 299 equal in height and width to the chamber. It has a gentle slopeand penetrates into the rock to a distance of some 25 to 35 feet,terminating, in some cases, in the mummy chamber itself, butmore frequently in a small apartment containing the opening ofa mummy pit.^ It must not be imagined that all the tombs were decorated ;there are many which have received neither painted nor carvedornament, and in others the ornament has never been carriedbeyond the first sketch. But even in those which are quite bare,the walls are, in nearly every instance, covered with a coat ofwhite stucco. As the funerary chapel was contained in the tomb itself, noeffort could be made to mask or conceal the entrance, whichaccordingly was taken advantage of for the display of ornament.

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