A history of art in ancient Egypt (1883) (14749532916)

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
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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Fig. 6.—Statue from the Ancient Empire,in calcareous stone. (Boulak.^) Drawnby G. Benedite. ^ Notice des prnicipaux Monuments exposes dans les Galeiies provisvires dii MnseedAntiquitcs cgyptiennes de S. A. le Vice-Roi, a Botdaq (1S76), p. 582. With theexception of a few woodcuts from photographs the contents of the museums atCairo and Boulak have been reproduced from drawings by M. J. Bourgoin. TheBoulak Museum will be referred to by the simple word Boulak. The reproductionsof objects in the Louvre are all from the pencil of M. Saint-Elme Gautier.
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Yi^.^j.—Th.^ Sheikh-cl-Belcd. (Boulak.) Drawn by J. Bourgoin. The Valley of the Nile and its Inhabitants. 13 M. Maspero.^ But other critics of equal authority are moreimpressed by the differences than by the resemblances, which,however, they neither deny nor explain. M. Renan prefers torank the Copts, the Tuaregs, and the Berbers in a family whichhe would call Chamitic, and to which he would refer most ofthe idioms of Northern Africa.^ A comparison of the languagesis, then, insufficient to decide the question of origin. The people whose physical characteristics we have describedand whose idiom we have defined, came from Asia, to all appear-ance, by the Isthmus of Suez. Perhaps they found establishedon the banks of the Nile another race, probably black, andindigenous to the African continent.^ If this were so the newcomers forced the earlier occupants of the country southwardswithout mixing with them, and set themselves resolutely to thework of improvement. Egypt must then have prese