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Identifier: historyofartinan01perruoft 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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Text Appearing After Image: Figs. 18, 19.—Scribes registering tlie yield of the harvest. From a tomb at Sakkarah. (Boulak, 95 inches high. Drawn by Bourgoin.) Egyptian buildings ; sometimes it is the foundations which arein fault, and, by their sinking, have compromised the safety of thewhole building ; ^ sometimes It is the built up columns of masonry,which, when deprived by time of their coating of stucco, appear 1 The foundations of the great temple at Abydjs, commenced by Seti I. andfinished by Rameses IF., consist of but a single course of generally ill-balancedmasonry. Hence the settling which has taken place, and the deep fissure whichdivides the building in the direction of its major axis.—Mariette, Voyage dans laHaute-Egypie, p. 59. The same writer speaks of Karnak in a similar strain : ThePharaonic temples are built, as a rule, with extreme carelessness. The westernpylon, for instance, fell because it was hollow, which made the inclination of thewalls a source of weakness instead of strength.—lii
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