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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
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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em eastward of the river forced them also toneglect the traditional law. ^ The symbolic connection established by man between the course of the .sun 8 A History of Art in Ancient Egypt. The ideas and beliefs which we have described were commonto all Egyptians, irrespective of class. When he felt his last hourapproaching, the humble peasant or boatman on the Nile was asanxious as Pharaoh himself to insure the survival of his doubleand to guard against the terrors of annihilation : Mais, jusquen son trepas, Le riche a des honneurs que le pauvre na pas. Those who, when alive, had to be content with a hut of earth orof reeds, could not, when dead, expect to have a tomb of stone orbrick, a habitation for eternity ; they could not look for joys in theother world which they had been unable to procure in this. Sothat such tombs as those which most fully embodied the ideaswe have described must always have remained the exclusive pri-vilege more or less of the governing classes. These consisted
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Fig. ioo.—Lid of the coffin of Entef, nth dynasty. Louvre. of the king, the princes and nobles, the priests, the military chiefs,and functionaries of every kind down to the humblest of thescribes attached to the administration. As for those Egyptianswho did not belong to this aristocracy, they had to be content withless expensive arrangements. The less poor among them at leasttook measures to be embalmed and to be placed in a coffin ofwood or papier-indchd, accompanied by scarabs and other charmsto protect them against malignant spirits. The painted figuresupon the coffin also helped to keep off evil influences. If theycould afford it they purchased places in a common tomb, where themummies were heaped one upon the other and confided to thecare of priests who performed the funerary rites for a whole and his own life was well understood by Champollion, who used it to explain thepaintings in the royal tombs at Thebes. (See his remarks on the tomb ofRameses V. on the 185th and followin

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