A History of Art in Ancient Egypt, Vol. 2 (of 2)

by Georges Perrot; Charles Chipiez

[392] Mariette, Notice du Musée, Nos. 107, 108, 131.

[393] Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archæology, v. part ii. 1877.

[394] See two plates of Prisse entitled: "Art Industriel. Vases en Or Émaillé; Rhytons et autres Vases."

[395] Mariette, Notice du Musée, No. 93.

[396] Lepsius, Denkmæler, part ii. plates 36 and 90.

[397] Among such objects is a table for libations, which was found in a tomb at Sakkarah. It is supported by two lions, whose pendent tails are twisted round a vase. Mariette, Notice du Musée, No. 93.

[398] See the illustration which Ebers calls A Reception in Ancient Egypt. (Ægypten, vol. ii. p. 276.)

[399] This figure is reproduced in Rayet's Monuments de l'Art Antique and described by M. Maspero. (Cuillers de Toilette en Bois.)

[400] Martial, Epigrammata, xiv. 150. Lucan, X. v. 141.

[401] Champollion, Lettres d'Égypte et de Nubie, p. 113.