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
Sculpture, ii. 180;
the origin of statue-making, 180;
S. under the Ancient Empire, 184;
process of making a wooden statue, 197;
groups in the proper sense unknown, 205;
animals in S., 217, 280;
extreme fidelity of royal portraiture, 223;
S. under the Theban Pharaohs, 226;
first appearance of colossi, 239;
the "Apollo Belvedere of Egypt," 248;
over slightness of proportions characteristic of the Middle and
New Empires, 249;
the worst of the Saite statues national in style, 272;
work under the Roman domination, 273;
absence of gods from larger works, 275;
religious statues purely votive, 276;
statues of Amen and Khons not colossal, 277;
the right to erect statues in the temples, 278;
busts not unknown, 279;
technical methods in the bas-reliefs, 284;
tools used in S., 303;
their influence and that of materials upon style, 303, 306-314.
Sebek-hotep, ii. 226.
Sebennytos, i. 18.
_Secos_, the (σηκός, or sanctuary), i. 352, 357, 375, 384, 406.
Sedeinga, i. 402.
Sekhet, i. 54, 58, 354, 406.
Seleucus Nicator, i. L.
Selk, i. 301.
Semneh, ii. 45;
cornice of temple at, 153.
Semper, Gottfried, his theories upon the origin of decoration, ii.
356.
Sepa, ii. 184.
Serapeum, i. 305-8;
the bronzes discovered in the S., ii. 266.
Serdab, origin of the word, i. 177, 187.
Sesebi, ii. 130.
Sesostris, i. 19, 347, ii. 27.
Seti I., i. 29, 123, 278;
his tomb, 280, 389;
carries on the Hypostyle Hall at Karnak, 378;
begins the temple at Abydos, 392;
_do._ _Speos-Artemidos_ and Redesieh, 406;
bas-reliefs at Abydos, ii. 247.
Seti II., ii. 260.
Shap-en-ap, ii. 264.
Sharuten, ii. 257.
_Sheik-el-Beled_, i. 9, ii. 194.
Sheshonk, i. 19,ii. 262.
Silco, i. 55.
Siout, i. 144, 249;
necropolis of, 252.
Siptah, tomb of, i. 281.
Snefrou, ii. 95, 184, 187.
Socharis, i. 166.
Soldi, Emile, ii. 288;
his explanation of the influence exercised over Egyptian sculpture
by the tools and materials employed, 304.
Soleb, ii. 102, 130, 404.
Solon, observation of a priest of Sais to, i. XXXIII.
Somalis, i. 260.
Soudan, i. 218.
Soutekh or Set, i. 68, ii. 93.
Spencer, Herbert, upon the conception of the _double_, i. 128;
upon "primitive ideas," 132;
upon the hole pierced for the double to pass through, 178.
_Speoi_ and _Hemi-speoi_, i. 402.
Sphinx, types of, i. 58-9;
the great S., 237-8, 323;
the temple of the S., 323-7;
controversy as to its true character, 327-9;
avenues of S., 336-7;
the S. of the Louvre, 61, ii. 228;
S. from Tanis, 230-3.
Squaring, for transference and enlargement of drawings, ii. 320.
Stark, Carl B., i. XXV., LV.
Stele, i. 155-6.
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