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Egyptian Decorative Art

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  • Menna Abu Zahraцитирует4 года назад
    throne of Ramessu III
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    In the XVIIIth dynasty it is more free, as might be expected in the time of Akhenaten.
  • Menna Abu Zahraцитирует4 года назад
    . In the earliest days we find it entwined around the hieroglyph of union
  • Menna Abu Zahraцитирует4 года назад
    Beside using the separate flowers, the whole plant was also a favourite subject as a group
  • Menna Abu Zahraцитирует4 года назад
    we find that something has been evolved which is indistinguishable from the Greek palmetto alternating with the lotus.
  • Menna Abu Zahraцитирует4 года назад
    This line of flowers and buds was varied as flowers and grapes, and appears very often in the XVIIIth dynasty.
  • Menna Abu Zahraцитирует4 года назад
    At Karnak there is a celebrated pair of granite pillars, one with the papyrus, the other with the lotus; and this form, with the sepals turned over at the end, became the more usual in the Empire and later times.
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    appears as a capital in wood of the Vth dynasty in the tomb of Imery.
  • Menna Abu Zahraцитирует4 года назад
    The plain flower was also used very early, as we see on the head-band of Nefert at the begining of the IVth dynasty. And as architectural ornament it
  • Menna Abu Zahraцитирует4 года назад
    The oldest use of the lotus was in groups of two flowers tied together by the stalks; such are found on the prehistoric pottery at Koptos, and on the earliest tombs. But in later times this became corrupted, and the origin apparently forgotten, by the XVIIIth dynasty.
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