Identifier: historyofartinan01perruoft 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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Text Appearing Before Image: guages. Some of the idioms of these Semitic tongues are found in Egyptianin a rudimentary state. Fromthis it has been concludedthat Egyptian and its cognatelanguages, after having belongedto that group, separated from itat a very early period, while theirgrammatical system was still incourse of formation. Thus, dis-united and subjected to diverseinfluences, the two families madea different use (gf the elementswhich they possessed in common.There would thus seem tohave been a community of rootbetween the Egyptians on theone part and the Arabs, Hebrews,and Phoenicians on the other,but the separation took place atsuch an early period, that thetribes who came to establishthemselves in the valley of theNile had both the time and theopportunity to acquire a veryparticular and original physi-ognomy of their own. TheEgyptians are therefore said tobelong to the proto-Semiticraces.This opinion has been sustained with more or less plausi-bility by MM. Lepsius, Benfey, and Bunsen, and accepted by

Text Appearing After Image: 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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