Now we can begin to see the real meaning of the so-called limitations of Egyptian art. Every people has had its limitations likewise, fitting it to its conditions; and if we look at them all impartially, and not by the standard of any one of them, we shall see that the deficiencies and limitations of most races are of much the same extent. If the Egyptian had tried to render not only character, but emotion also, he would have been defying his true conditions, as much as if we put a dado of Persian glazed tiles on the Parthenon. To refer this artistic perception to the uniformity of the Nile, is about as true as if we attributed any deficiencies in German art or literature to the prevalence of cold and snow, which is a far greater tyranny than the inundation. Every physical circumstance is a factor in human work, but none of them singly dominates it. There is no point in calling the Egyptian childish in his abilities, as every other nation has been equally childish in some other respects--the Roman in his abject submission to omens, the Greek in playing with words, the Assyrian in his inaccuracy, the Arab in his drawing. In short, there is no essential difference in the capacity for showing national life and feeling by the art of each country; and in the facility and truth of expression Egypt stands in the first rank of those lands where Art has exhibited the character of man. INDEX Aah-hotep jewellery, 91, 92. Aahmes I, jewellery, 92. II, inlaid hawk-head, 103. Aahmes-si neit-rannu (fig. 9), 21. Abu Simbel, 28. Accuracy of work, 81, 82. Ainofer servant, 16. Akhenaten (Amenhotep IV), art of, 20, 53; sculpture, 41; relief, 53; death mask, 144. Alabaster sculpture, 25; vases, 78. Amenardys, statue of, 26, 44. Amenemhat, III, 39, 88. Amenhotep, I, 120. II, 26, 111, 129. III, 26, 28, 53, 111, 120, 129. official of, 41. IV, 26, 111, 120. Amethyst beads, 80, 86. Amulets of stone, 79. of glaze, 114. Animals, real and mythical, 49. Antef V, 119. Antimony used, 104. Arab art, 155. Arch avoided externally, 6. known early, 64. form of brick, 64. built without centring, 65. Architecture, 62-68. Armlets of flint, 81. _See_ Bangles. Art belongs to country, 1, 2, 152. absent from copying, 2, 53. conditions in Egypt, 2. Art dominated by strong light, 3. accepted strong contrasts, 4. ruled by level and vertical lines, 5. analysis by Tolstoy, 7. expression of character, 7-10, 19. truth of Egyptian, 9. greatest under pyramid kings, 16, 17. rapidity of development, 17, 51. decay of, 18. of character and of emotion, 19. of different peoples, 153-156. Asiatic conquests influence art, 19. Assyria, art of, 154. Aswan, school of, 27. Axe of Aahmes, 92. Baboon, ivory, 136.