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
Antinoë, ii. 66, 72.
Antiquity, conventional meaning of the word, i. XLV.
Antony, tomb of, i. 161.
Anubis, i. 143, 287.
Apelles, i. XIV, XVI, LI.
Apis, i. 54, 67;
the oldest tombs of A. contemporary with 18th dynasty, 295;
new rites inaugurated by a son of Rameses II. 305;
Serapeum, 306;
dwelling for A. constructed by Psemethek, 429.
Aplou, i. 159.
Ap-Môtennou, i. 144.
Apollo Epicurius, i. XII.
Apries, helped to deliver Egypt, i. 78;
description given by Herodotus of his tomb, 306;
supposed head of, ii. 266.
Arch, the;
extreme antiquity of the A. in Egypt, ii. 77;
true A. in the necropolis of Abydos, 78;
semicircular A. the most frequent, 79;
elliptic A. 80;
A. in the Ramesseum, 81;
inverted A. in foundations, 82;
offset A. at Dayr-el-Bahari, 83;
_do._ at Abydos, 84.
Architecture;
general principle of form, i. 97;
_do._ of construction, 103;
materials, 103;
masonry, 107;
vaults, 111;
concrete and pisé, 113;
assembled construction, 115;
restoration of a wooden building, 117;
sepulchral A. 126;
conditions imposed by the national religion, 134;
civil A. ii. 1;
must be judged almost entirely from representations on papyri
and bas-reliefs, _id._;
the palace, 8;
the house, 26;
military A. 38;
construction examined in detail, 55;
motives taken from early work in wood, _id._;
arch, 77;
the Egyptian orders, 85;
their arrangement, 133;
doors and windows, 156;
the profession of architect, 176;
the supremacy of A. over the other arts in Egypt, 405.
_Archæological Survey of India_, i. LIII.
Aristophanes, i. XVIII.
Armachis, i. 326.
Aromati, the, i. 434.
Arsaphes, statue in the British Museum, ii. 265.
Artemis, i. 406.
_Aryballus_, ii. 368.
Ass, the, ii. 217.
Assassif, El, ii. 79.
Assouan, i. 105;
Turkish governor of A., his vandalism, 396.
Asychis, i. 347.
Ata, i. 207.
Aten, attempt to inaugurate the supremacy of, i. 69.
Athené Polias, temple of, i. XIII.
Atta, i. 145.
Avaris, reconquest of, i. 33, ii. 228.
B
_Ba_, i. 285.
Bab-el-Molouk, i. 255.
Babylon, ii. 13.
Bædeker;
guide to Egypt, construction of the Pyramids, i. 201;
theory as to the pyramid of Meidoum, 214;
edited partly by Dr. Ebers, _id._;
casing of the second pyramid, 233;
traces of a door in the tomb of Ti, 290.
Baehr, i., III.
Bahr-Yussef, i. 165.
Bakenkhonsou, ii. 177-8.
Ballu, i. XIII.
_Bari_, i. 352.
Basalt, statues of, ii. 221, 235.
Bassæ, i. XII.
Battlements, ii. 153.
Beds, ii. 393.
Beggig, obelisk of, ii. 175.
Beit-el-din, ii. 20.
Beit-el-Wali, speos at, i. 407, 418, 421;
bas-reliefs at, ii. 246.
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