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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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was modified by their lively imaginations into tliatij/vxoa-Taa-La, or zieig/n//g0/sou/s, which we find in the Iliad (xxii. 208-212), wheresuccess in a combat between two heroes depends upon the result of that operation.(See Alfred Maury, Revue archeologique, 1844, pp. 235-249, 291-307 ; 1845, pp.707-717, and De Uitte, ibide?n, 1844, pp. 647-656.) The Tomb under the New Empire. 287 threats. Thanks to the help of Osiris and of other soul-protecting gods, such as Anubis, it triumphed in the end over allobstacles, and, as the sun reappears each morning upon theeastern horizon, it arrived surely at last at those celestial dwellingswhere it became incorporated among the gods. The Egyptian imagination spared no effort to represent withthe greatest possible precision those mysterious regions where thesoul had to undergo its appointed tests. Such beliefs afforded awide scope for the individual influence of the artist and the poet,and accordingly we find that they were modified with a rapidity
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■AHrf Fig. 184.—The weighing of actions. (From an illustrated Ritual of the Dead in the British Museum.) which is unique in Egyptian art. But the Egyptians wereaccustomed, from such early times, to give a concrete form to alltheir ideas, that they were sure to clothe the plastic expressionof this theme in a richness and brilliancy of colour which we donot find to the same degree in any other people of antiquity. Onthe other hand, although they did not escape the operation of theeternal law of change, their temperament was sufficiently con-servative to give to each of their creations a peculiar fixity andconsistency. Their Hades, if we may call it so, took on a verydefinite form, and features which varied but little throuorh a 288 A History of Art in Ancient Egypt. J \ long course of centuries ; and this form is practically that whichwe find in the sepulchres of the great Theban kings and insome belonging to private individuals. It was through long and gloomy galleries, like those

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