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Identifier: historyofartinan01perruoft (find matches)
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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the statues (see Fig. 242),which are chiselled with great care and skill in the fine yellowsandstone of which the mountain consists. The fa9ade of the Great Temple is much larger. It is about130 feet wide by 92 high. It is not divided by buttresses like theother, but it has a bold cornice made up of twenty-two cynocephalicfigures seated with their hands upon their knees. Each of theseanimals is sculptured in the round, and is only connected with theface of the rock by a small part of its posterior surface. Theyare not less than seven feet high. A frieze, consisting of adedicatory inscription carved in deep and firmly drawn hiero-glyphs runs below the cornice. Above the doorway a colossalfigure of Ra is carved in the rock, and on each side of himRameses is depicted in low relief, in the act of adoration. Thisgroup occupies the middle of the facade. But the most strikingfeature of the building is supplied by the four colossi ofRameses placed two and two on either side of the door. They
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3O a, a s (A I ~ 7 The Temple under the New Emph^e. 413 are the largest in Egypt. From the sole of the feet to the apex ofthe pschent which the king bears on his head, they are about sixty-five feet in height. Rameses is seated, his hands upon his thighs,in the pose ordinarily made use of for the royal statues at theentrances of the temples. In spite of these enormous dimensions

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  • bookauthor:Armstrong__Walter__Sir__1850_1918
  • booksubject:Art____Egypt_History
  • booksubject:Egypt____Antiquities
  • bookpublisher:London___Chapman_and_Hall
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  • bookleafnumber:506
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