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Title: The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916
Subjects: History, Ancient Egypt -- History Syria -- History and antiquities Assyria -- History and antiquities
Publisher: London : S.P.C.K.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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f theAnatlasi Papyrus, Xo. 1, pi. xxvii. 1. C, which is between Mount tJ.isios and Uaphia (CiiAiiA.s, yuyagedun Egyptien, p. 388), on the road leading from Egypt lo Syria. WiEDEJiAx.v, .Egypt. Geschichte, p. .iUO; tiBiFmii, Antiquities of Tell el-Yahudiyeh, pi. xjti. 8. * Naville, lluhastis, pi. ,\xxviii. G, and pp. 45, 4(j. * Mariette, Monuments divers, pi. 47 c ; base of a statue from Tlimuis. Pethie, Tanis II.: Nebesheh, pp. 11, 2J, 31, and pi. s.. No. 8. IETBIE, Tunis II., 1)1. vii., Nos. 142-144, and p. 29. 476 TEE CLOSE OF THE THEBAN EMPIRE. had already been erected in them by Kamses; he constructed also, at theplace at present called Tel el-Yahiidiyeh, a royal palace of limestone,granite, and alabaster, of which the type is unique amongst all the structureshitherto discovered. Its walls and columns were not ornamented with theusual sculptures incised in stone, but the whole of the decorations—scenes aswell as inscriptions—consisted of plaques of enamelled terra-cotta set in
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THE COLOSSAL OSIRIAN FIGURES Df THE TIEST COCKT AT MEDINET-HABU. cement. The forms of men and animals and the lines of hieroglyphs, standingout in slight relief from a glazed and warm-coloured background, constitutean immense mosaic-work of many hues. The few remains of the workshow great purity of design and an extraordinary delicacy of tone. All theknowledge of the Egyptian painters, and all the technical skill of theirartificers in ceramic, must have been employed to compose such harmoniouslybalanced decorations, with their free handling of line and colour, and theirthousands of rosettes, squares, stars, and buttons of varicoloured pastes.^ Thedifficulties to overcome were so appalling, that when the marvellous work was Drawn by Faucber-Gudin, from a photograph by Beato, This temple has beeu known since the beginning of the century, and the Louvre is in possessionof some fragments from it whicli came from Salts collection; it was rediscovered in 1870, and someportions of it were tr

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