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Title: Manual of Egyptian archæology and guide to the study of antiquities in Egypt. For the use of students and travellers
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916 Johns, Agnes Sophia Griffith, 1859-
Subjects: Art
Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons London, H. Grevel and Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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were made entirelyeither of silver or gold, others are partly gold, partlysilver; others, again, rival the Greek chrys-elephantinestatuary, where the gold is combined with carvedivory, ebony, and precious stones. Bas-reliefs atKarnak, Medinet Habu, at Denderah and elsewhere,represent these statues, and show us wdiat they werelike, and so does the statuary in limestone or wood ;the material may be different, but the style is thesame. There is nothing more perishable than suchwork—the value of the materials foredooms it todestruction. All that survived the civil wars, foreigninvasion, and the rapacity of the Pharaohs andRoman governors, fell a prey to the iconoclasm ofthe Christians. A few small figures in guise ofamulets concealed in the mummies, a few statuettesonce adored as domestic Lares, found among theruins of houses, and some ex-votos lost in obscurecorners of a temple, are all that have come to us offigures of divinities. An elcctrum statue of a youth 350 THE INDUSTRIAL ARTS.
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of the time of the Eighteenth Dynasty was found ina private tomb close to the valley temple ofHatshepsut at Deir el Bahari. It is 5; inches high. The figure is nude.In one hand theboy clasps a lotusbud with its longstem. The workis not highl\finished, but themodelling is deli-cate and subtle.* This is not a re-ligious piece. The^ i^lT^^? V!^ of Tahuti, figures of Ptah and Eighteenth Dynast). ^ Amon, belongingto Queen xAahhotep, another Amon at Cairo, and thesilver vulture from Medinet Habu, are so far the onlyother pieces that can with certainty be attributed tothe New Kingdom. The re-mainder belong to the Saiticand rtolemaic periods, and areonly distinguished b\ perfectionof workmanship. The vessels of the templesand palaces have varied littlebetter than the statuary. Early ^^IM* in the nineteenth century the Fig. 314.—Silver vase ofLouvre acquired some flat- rhmms. bottomed bowls or cups that had been presented byThothmes III. to Tahuti, one of his generals, as a Earl of Carnarvon

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