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Title: The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916
Subjects: Civilization
Publisher: London : S.P.C.K.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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of haughty indifference which is befitting afavourite of the Pharaoh, possessor of generously bestowed sinecures, and lord 1 Discovered by Mariette during the excavations at the Serapeum, and published in the Choixde Monuments et de Dessins du Sérapëum de Memphis, pl. x. (Kougé-Banville, Album photographiquede la Mission, Nos. 106, 107; Maspero, in the Monuments de lArt Antique by O. Kayet, vol. i.). Itcomes from the tomb of, and represents, Sahhemlca (E. de Bougé, Notice sommaire, 1855, p. 66), ofthe Vth dynasty. ■ Discovered by Mariette at Saqqâra (Notices des principaux Monuments, 1876, p. 235, No. 769);reproduced in the Album pliotographique, pi. 20, by Mariette himself; afterwards by Perrot-Chipiez(Histoire de lArt, vol. i. p. 657, No. 440) and by Maspero, in O. Kayet, Les Monuments de lArtAntique, vol! i., aud in the Archéologie Égyptienne, pp. 211, 212, and fig. 186.—Vth dynasty. 3 Drawn by Boudier, from a photograph by Emil Brugsch-Bey. This scribe was discovered at
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THE SITTING SCRIBIi IN THE G1ZEH MUSEUM. 410 THE MEMPH1TE EMPIRE. of a score of domains.1 The same haughtiness of attitude distinguishes thedirector of the granaries, Nofir. We rarely encounter a small statue so expres-sive of vigour and energy.2 Sometimes there may be found amongthese short-garmented people an individual wrapped and almostsmothered in an immense abayah;3 or a naked man, representinga peasant on his way to market, his bag on his left shoulder,slightly bent under the weight, carrying his sandals in hisother hand, lest they should be worn out too quickly inwalking.4 Everywhere we observe the traits of characterdistinctive of the individual and his position, rendered withft scrupulous fidelity : nothing is omitted, no detail of thecharacteristics of the model is suppressed. Idealisation wemust not expect, but we have here an intelligent and some-times too realistic fidelity. Portraits have been con-ceived among other peoples and in other periodsin a different way : they

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