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: eir lifetime inthe necropolis of Memphis. We may say the same of the earlycenturies of the Middle Empire. The Egypt of the great kingsbelonging to the twelfth dynasty has been preserved for us uponthe tombs of Ameni and Num-Hotep, the governors of the noviesin which they were buried. It is to the burial chambers at Gizeh,at Sakkarah, at Meidoum, and at Beni-Hassan that we must otq forcomplete types of sepulchral architecture at those epochs ; to thestatues in the recesses of their massive walls and to the bas-reliefsin their narrow chambers, we must turn for those features ofearly Egyptian civilization which remained for many centuries 36 A History of Art in Ancient Egypt. without material change; by these monuments we are enabled tobuild up piece by piece a trustworthy representation of the Egyptianpeople both in their labours and in their pleasures. Finally it isfrom these tombs of private individuals that the best works ofEgyptian artists have been obtained, the works in which they

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