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
Mariette, Auguste;
formation of Egypt, i. 2;
accession of Menes, 18;
Egyptian chronology, 20;
bad workmanship of Egyptian temples, foundations of great temples
at Abydos, 28;
house in the desert, 41;
protest against M. Renan's conception of ancient Egypt, 71;
excavations, 86;
ancient art chiefly known through his exertions and his
contributions to the Louvre and the French Exhibition, 89;
M. on the arch, 113;
obelisk of Hatasu gilded, 122;
sepulchral formula, 135;
θυμιατήρια in the tomb of Ti, 143;
objects for the support of the _Ka_ sometimes modelled "in the
round," 145;
position of the stele, 157;
tombs constructed during lifetime, 160;
his "theory of the mastaba," 164;
derivation of the word Sakkarah, 166;
boats found in mummy pits, 184;
pyramids always in a necropolis, 191;
Mastabat-el-Faraoun, 215;
pyramids upon Drah-abou'l-neggah, 217;
opening of three unexplored pyramids at Sakkarah, 234;
tomb of Osiris, supposed site, 243;
tombs at Abydos, 244;
steles from Abydos, 249;
temples of the left bank, Thebes, 264;
method of closing tombs in the Bab-el-Molouk, 278;
mummy of Queen Aah-hotep, 291;
tombs of Apis, 295;
the little Serapeum, 302;
temple of the Sphinx, 326;
Sphinxes at the Serapeum of Memphis, 336;
Sphinx avenues ornamental rather than religious, 337;
walls of Karnak, 338;
extent of the temples at Karnak, 362;
sanctuary in the great temple, 384;
temple of Dayr-el-Bahari, 425;
excavations at Sais, 433;
characteristics of the Egyptian temple, 434;
contrast between it and the Greek temple, the Christian church,
and the Mahommedan mosque, 435;
explanation of its elaborate decoration, _id._;
Royal Pavilion of Medinet-Abou not a palace, ii. 16;
building materials, 53;
brick-making, _id._;
carelessness of the Egyptian builders, 70;
true vaults in the necropolis of Abydos, 77;
inverted arches, 81;
lotiform capitals in the tomb of Ti, 86;
origin of the faggot-shaped column, 99;
origin of the campaniform capital, 128;
proposal that it should be called _papyriform_, _id._;
discards the notion that the columns in the Babastite court, at
Karnak, bore architraves, 145;
his assumption that they once enclosed a hypæthral temple, _ib._;
first appearance of the winged disc, 152;
obelisks in the Theban necropolis, 170;
obelisks of Hatasu gilded, 174;
statues in the tomb of Ti, 181;
statues of Rahotep and Nefert, from Meidoum, 187;
panels from the tomb of Hosi, 188;
the Scribe of the Louvre, 192;
brought figures from Ancient Empire to Paris in 1878, 211;
Nemhotep, 212;
picture of geese, 220;
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