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Primitive art in Egypt (1905)

Capart, Jean, 1877-1947 · London : H. Grevel · leaf 261

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, of being scattered in haphazard fashion over the surface of the palette, the animals are regularly separated into three rows: in the first are bulls; in the second, asses; in the third, rams.^ This decoration recalls the figures of animals on the knife-handle in Fig. 35, in which Petrie… … Fig. 176. — Fragment of a Slate Palette (Verso). Cairo Museum. identical with those which appear in the hieroglyphs of the beginning of the fourth dynasty.^ The strongest proof that the Cairo fragment should be • DiJRST & Gaillai^d, Studicn iibcr die Gcschichte dcs iigyptischcn llaus- schafcs, in…

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