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Bas-Reliefs From the Temple of Rameses at Abydos (Classic Reprint) Herbert E. Winlock No preview available - 2018 |
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Abydene Abydos Alden Weir Amarna ancient Annales appear backplate Beni Hasan bevor blue border breastplate Bulletin Busiris Cairo cantle captive cavetto Ceramic Art chamfron chiton colletin color cuish Daressy Davies decoration Deir Dry-point Dynasty edge Egypt Egyptian Etching Etruria Etruscan eyed peg face faience figure foreground front Galiot Genouilhac armor glazed ground hair Hamza hand head helmet Henry VIII holes Ibid inlay inscription Kantir king lame linch hooks lion loin defense lower left lower right corner Medinet Habu Metropolitan Museum mezail Museum of Art offerings Osiris painted palace palmette pauldrons pieces plate line pommel plate portrait putto Ramesses Ramesses II rectangular relief rerebrace right side rondelle royal sabaton sculptures Sethy Seti shadow shoulder Signed sliding rivets statue straps Symbol tasset temple thick throne daises tilting gauntlet tion tomb Unsigned upper vambrace wall warrior woman
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Page 3 - Myccnaewasonrc covered with a lining of bronze plates. Of the two chief methods of working bronze, gold and silver, it is probable that the hammer process was first practised, at least for statues, among the Greeks, who themselves attributed the invention of the art of hollow casting to...
Page 3 - Rhoecus, both Samian sculptors, about the middle of the 6th century Bc Pausanias specially mentions that one of the oldest statues he had ever seen was a large figure of Zeus in Sparta, made of hammered bronze plates riveted together.
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Page 1 - Bas-Reliefs from the Temple of Rameses I at Abydos, by Herbert E. Winlock.
Page 3 - We have no reason to be ashamed of the men who worshipped deities of clay and would not, even for their gods, change gold and silver into images. Effigies of clay still exist in different places, while gable ornaments in clay are still to be seen even at Rome as well as in provincial towns. The admirable execution of these figures, their artistic merits and their durability make them more worthy of honour than gold, and they are at any rate more innocent
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