A History of Art in Ancient Egypt, Vol. 2 (of 2)Perrot, Georges
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A History of Art in Ancient Egypt, Vol. 2 (of 2)
Perrot, Georges
Art -- Egypt -- History; Egypt -- Antiquities
Abydos, i. 6, 16;
foundation of the great temple at, 28;
the early capital in the nome of A., 68;
origin there of the worship of Osiris, _id._;
Sculpture more refined than that of Thebes, 76;
portrait of Seti at A., 123;
entrance to the Egyptian _Hades_ near A., 128, 134;
situation of the necropolis, 136;
_do._ 156;
situation of doors and steles in the tombs at A., 157, 241;
description of the tombs at A., 243;
temple has two hypostyle halls, 385;
descriptions of Mariette, 434;
fortress at A., ii. 41;
necropolis, 241;
tomb of Osiris at A., 242;
other tombs, 295.
Acacia, _Nilotica_, ii. 54;
_Lebhak_, _id._
Acacia doors, i. 252.
Achæans, i. 162.
Achoris, ii. 266.
Addeh, speos at, i. 406.
Ægina, i. VII, XI.
Ægis, ii. 382.
Agra, ii. 13.
Ahmes, i. 34, 168.
Alabaster, i. 105, 325.
Alberti, L. B., ii. 82.
Alcamenes, i. VI, XII.
Alexander the Great, i. L, 21, 430.
Alexandria, i. 55.
_Almees_, ii. 249.
Amasis;
his elevation to the throne, i. 33;
his deliverance of Egypt, 78, 292;
body insulted by Cambyses, 309;
his monolithic chapel, 353;
dimensions of the monolithic chapel, ii. 75, 97;
stele discovered in the Serapeum, 285.
Amada, temple of, ii. 168.
Ambulatory of Thothmes, ii. 135.
Amenemhat III., i. 347;
Amenemhats, the, ii. 227, 333.
Amenemheb, i. 279.
Ameneritis, statue of, at Boulak, ii. 263.
Ameni, tomb of, i. 34.
Amenophis III. i. 166;
his colossi at Thebes, 267;
_do._ 289;
builder of Luxor, 371;
builder of the great temple at Napata, 385;
temple at El-Kab, 400, ii. 66;
the colossi at Thebes, 240;
portrait head in the British Museum, 242;
painted portrait in the Bab-el-Molouk, 332, 337, 347.
Amenophis IV.;
his attempt to inaugurate the worship of Aten, the solar disc,
i. 69;
ruins of his capital, ii. 5;
his statues, 244;
curious characteristics of his person, _id._, 289.
Amenophium, i. 268, 289, 376.
Amenoth, i. 159.
Amen-Ra, may be identified with Indra, i. 50, 63;
hardly mentioned earlier than the eleventh dynasty, 68, 113;
offerings to him as master of Karnak, 155, 268;
the chief person of the Theban triad, 333;
chapel at Abydos, 389;
possibly symbolized in the obelisks, ii. 170;
his statues not colossal, 277.
Ament, the Egyptian Hades, i. 157.
Amoni-Amenemhaït, i. 156.
Amoni, his inscription at Beni-Hassan, i. 39.
Amosis, (see Amasis).
Amulets, i. 159, ii. 371.
Anahit (Anaitis), ii. 262.
Ancyra, expedition to, i. 41.
Animals, sacred, i. 54.
Animals, worship of, i. 54-64;
mummified, 314;
figures of, ii. 281.
"Answerers," or "respondents," i. 146.
Anta, use of, ii. 141.
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