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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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knees and nourishing him fromtheir breasts, a theme which is also found in royal tombs (Fig. 175);or one god presenting the king to another (Fig. 2)3) , or the kingpaying homage to sometimes one, sometimes another, of hisdivine protectors (Figs. 14 and 176). We find such religiousmotives as these continually repeated, upon wall and columnalike, from the first Theban kings to the epoch of the Ptolemies.On the right bank of the river pictures of a mystically religiouscharacter are universal; on the left bank those with an histori-cal aim are more frequent. It will be seen that the difterence between the two kinds oftemple, between that of the necropolis and that of the city, isnot so striking and conspicuous as to be readily perceived by thefirst comer who crosses from the one bank of the river to theother ; but the variations are quite sufficiently marked to justifythe distinction propounded by Mariette. According to him thetemples in the necropolis are funerary chapels which owe their
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CO OhC _o o&, S cS u o h-1 £ The Tomb under the New Empire. 273 increased size and the richness of their decoration to the Qreneralmagnificence and highly developed taste of the century In whichthey were built. But it is enough for our present purpose to haveindicated the places which they occupied in the vast architecturalcompositions which formed the tombs of a Seti or a Rameses.

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