CONTENTS.

PAGE
CHAPTER I.
CIVIL AND MILITARY ARCHITECTURE.
§ 1.[The Graphic Processes employed by the Egyptians in their representations of Buildings]1-8
§ 2.[The Palace]8-26
§ 3.[The Egyptian House]26-38
§ 4.[Military Architecture]38-50

CHAPTER II.
METHODS OF CONSTRUCTION, THE ORDERS, SECONDARY FORMS.
§ 1.[An Analysis of Architectural Forms necessary]51-52
§ 2.[Materials]52-55
§ 3.[Construction]55-76
§ 4.[The Arch]77-84
§ 5.[The Pier and Column.—The Egyptian Orders]85-133
[Their Origin]85-91
[General Types of Supports]91-133
§ 6.[The Ordonnance of Egyptian Colonnades]133-147
§ 7.[Monumental Details]147-155
§ 8.[Doors and Windows]156-162
[Doors]156-161
[Windows]162
§ 9.[The Illumination of the Temples]162-169
§ 10.[The Obelisks]169-176
§ 11.[The Profession of Architect]176-179

CHAPTER III.
SCULPTURE.
§ 1.[The Origin of Statue-making]180-184
§ 2.[Sculpture under the Ancient Empire]184-225
§ 3.[Sculpture under the First Theban Empire]226-238
§ 4.[Sculpture under the Second Theban Empire]239-265
§ 5.[The Art of the Saite Period]265-274
§ 6.[The Principal Themes of Egyptian Sculpture]275-284
§ 7.[The Technique of the Bas-reliefs]284-288
§ 8.[Gems]288-291
§ 9.[The Principal Conventions in Egyptian Sculpture]291-326
§ 10.[The General Characteristics of the Egyptian Style]326-330

CHAPTER IV.
PAINTING.
§ 1.[Technical Processes]331-341
§ 2.[The Figure]341-351
§ 3.[Caricature]351-355
§ 4.[Ornament]355-363

CHAPTER V.
THE INDUSTRIAL ARTS.
§ 1.[Definition and Characteristics of Industrial Art]364-367
§ 2.[Glass and Pottery]367-377
§ 3.[Metal-work and Jewelry]377-390
§ 4.[Woodwork]390-398
§ 5.[The Commerce of Egypt]399-400

CHAPTER VI.
[THE GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF EGYPTIAN ART, AND THE PLACE OF EGYPT IN ART HISTORY]401-408
[APPENDIX]409-416
[INDEX]417-434

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

COLOURED PLATES.
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[Thebes, the Pavilion of Medinet-Abou, restored]24
[Portico in the temple of Medinet-Abou, restored]144
[Rahotep and Nefert, Boulak Museum]186
[The Scribe, Louvre]192
[The Queen Taia, Boulak Museum]240
[Funerary offerings, fragment of a painting upon plaster, Louvre]334
[Tomb of Ptah-hotep, fragment of Western Wall]356
[Tomb of Ptah-hotep, ceiling and upper part of Western Wall]360
FIG. PAGE
1.[House]3
2.[The adoration of the solar disk by Amenophis IV.]6
3.[Egyptian plan of a villa]7
4.[Part of the plan of a house and its offices]9
5.[Partial restoration of a palace at Tell-el-Amarna]17
6.[Ground plan of the "Royal Pavilion"]19
7.[Plan of the first floor of the "Royal Pavilion"]19
8.[Longitudinal section of the pavilion]19
9.[Transverse section of the pavilion]20
10.[Brackets in the courtyard of the Royal Pavilion]23
11.[Plan of a part of the city at Tell-el-Amarna]29
12.[Bird's-eye view of a villa]31
13.[Model of an Egyptian house]34
14-17.[Plans of houses]34
18.[Piece of furniture in the form of a house]35
19.[House from a Theban wall painting]35
20.[House with a tower]35
21.[Battlemented house]36
22.[Decorated porch]36
23.[House with inscription]36
24.[House, storehouse, and garden]36
25.[Brewing]37
26.[Granaries]37
27.[Granaries]38
28.[Military post at Abydos]42
29.[Military post]42
30.[Bird's-eye view of the fortress of Semneh]43
31.[A besieged fort]46
32.[Siege of a fortress]47
33.[Brick stamped with the royal ovals]54
34.[The Sarcophagus of Mycerinus]57
35.[Door of a tomb at Sakkarah]60
36.[Stele from the fourth dynasty]61
37.[Stele from the fourth dynasty]62
38.[Flattened form of lotus-leaf ornament, seen in front and in section]63
39.[Lotus-leaf ornament in its elongated form]63
40.[Wooden pavilion]64
41.[Horizontal section, in perspective, of the first pylon at Karnak]67
42.[Workmen polishing a monolithic column]69
43.[Transport of a colossus]73
44.[Arch in the necropolis of Abydos]78
45.[Arch in El-Assassif]79
46.[Arch in El-Assassif]80
47.[Vaults in the Ramesseum]81
48.[Vault in the Ramesseum]81
49.[Elliptical vault]82
50.[Foundations with inverted segmental arches]82
51.[Transverse section of a corridor at Dayr-el-Bahari]83
52.[Section in perspective through the same corridor]83
53.[Vaulted chapel at Abydos]84
54.[Bas-relief from the fifth dynasty]86
55.[Detail of capital]86
56.[Bas-relief from the fifth dynasty]87
57.[Details of columns in Fig. 56]87
58.[Pavilion from Sakkarah]87
59.[Details of columns in Fig. 58]87
60.[Bas-relief from the fifth dynasty]88
61.[Details of the columns]88
62-65.[Columns from bas-reliefs]89
66.[Quadrangular pier]92
67.[Tapering quadrangular pier]92
68.[Pier with capital]92
69.[Hathoric pier]92
70.[Osiride pillar]93
71.[Ornamented pier]94
72.[Octagonal pillar]96
73.[Sixteen-sided pillar]96
74.[Polygonal column with a flat vertical band]98
75.[Polygonal pier with mask of Hathor]98
76.[Column from Beni-Hassan]99
77.[Column at Luxor]101
78.[Column at Medinet-Abou]101
79.[Column at Medinet-Abou]102
80.[Column from the Great Hall at Karnak]103
81.[Column from the Hypostyle Hall of the Ramesseum]103
82.[Column of Soleb]104
83.[Column of Thothmes at Karnak]104
84.[Corner pier from the temple at Elephantiné]106
85.[Pier with capital]107
86.[Osiride pier]109
87.[Hathoric pier from Eilithya]111
88.[Hathoric pier from a tomb]111
89.[Column at Kalabché]112
90.[Column of Thothmes III.]113
91.[Base of a column]115
92.[Bell-shaped capital]117
93.[Capital at Sesebi]119
94.[Capital from the temple of Nectanebo, at Philæ]119
95.[Capital from the work of Thothmes, at Karnak]120
96.[Arrangement of architraves upon a capital]120
97.[The Nymphæa Nelumbo]123
98.[Papyrus plant]127
99.[Small chamber at Karnak]134
100.[Apartment in the temple at Luxor]134
101.[Hall of the temple at Abydos]134
102.[Plan of part of the Hypostyle Hall at Karnak]134
103.[Tomb at Sakkarah]135
104.[Hall in the inner portion of the Great Temple at Karnak]135
105.[Portico of the first court at Medinet-Abou]135
106.[Portico of the first court at Luxor]135
107.[The portico of the pronaos, Luxor]136
108.[Part plan of the temple at Elephantiné]136
109.[Luxor, plan of the second court]136
110.[Portico in the Temple of Khons]137
111.[Luxor, portico of the first court]137
112.[Part of the portico of the first court, Luxor]138
113.[Portico in front of the façade of the temple of Gournah]138
114.[Part of the Hypostyle Hall in the Great Temple at Karnak]138
115.[Second Hypostyle Hall in the temple of Abydos]139
116.[Hall in the speos of Gherf-Hossein]139
117.[Medinet-Abou; first court]139
118.[Medinet-Abou; second court]139
119.[Portico of the Temple of Khons]140
120.[Portico of first court at Luxor]140
121.[Anta, Luxor]141
122.[Anta, Gournah]141
123.[Anta, Medinet-Abou]141
124.[Anta in the Great Hall of Karnak]141
125.[Antæ, Temple of Khons]142
126.[Anta and base of pylon, Temple of Khons]142
127.[Antæ, Medinet-Abou]143
128.[Antæ, Medinet-Abou]143
129.[Anta and column at Medinet-Abou]145
130.[Column in the court of the Bubastides]146
131.[Stereobate]148
132.[Stereobate with double plinth]148
133.[Pluteus in the intercolumniations of the portico in the second court of the Ramesseum]150
134.[Doorway]151
135.[Cornice of the Ramesseum]152
136.[Cornice of a wooden pavilion]152
137.[Pedestal of a Sphinx]153
138.[Cornice under the portico]153
139.[Fragment of a sarcophagus]154
140.[Fragment of decoration from a royal tomb at Thebes]154
141.[Plan of doorway, Temple of Elephantiné]157
142.[Plan of doorway, Temple of Khons]157
143.[Plan of doorway in the pylon, Temple of Khons]157
144, 145.[The pylon and propylon of the hieroglyphs]157
146.[Gateway to the court-yard of the small Temple at Medinet-Abou]158
147.[A propylon with its masts]158
148.[A propylon]159
149.[Gateway in the inclosing wall of a Temple]159
150.[Doorway of the Temple of Khons]160
151.[Doorway of the Temple of Gournah]160
152.[Doorway of the Temple of Seti]161
153, 154.[Windows in the Royal Pavilion at Medinet-Abou]162
155.[Attic of the Great Hall at Karnak]163
156.[Claustra of the Hypostyle Hall, Karnak]165
157.[Claustra in the Hypostyle Hall of the Temple of Khons]166
158.[Method of lighting in one of the inner halls of Karnak]167
159.[Auxiliary light-holes in the Hypostyle Hall at Karnak]167
160.[Method of lighting one of the rooms in the Temple of Khons]167
161.[Light openings in a lateral aisle of the Hypostyle Hall in the Ramesseum]168
162.[The Temple of Amada]168
163.[Claustra]168
164.[Window of a house in the form of claustra]169
165.[Window closed by a mat]169
166.[Funerary obelisk]171
167.[The obelisk of Ousourtesen]173
168.[The obelisk in the Place de la Concorde]173
169.[The obelisk of Beggig]175
170.[Upper part of the obelisk at Beggig]175
171.[Limestone statue of the architect Nefer]177
172.[Sepa and Nesa]186
173.[Ra-hotep]188
174-176.[Wooden panels from the tomb of Hosi]191, 193, 195
177.[Limestone head]196
178.[Wooden statue]198
179.[Bronze statuette]199
180.[Bronze statuette]201
181.[Ra-nefer]204
182.[Statue in the Boulak Museum]205
183.[Statue of Ti]205
184.[Wooden statue]206
185.[Statue in limestone]206
186.[Limestone group]207
187.[Wooden statuette]208
188.[Nefer-hotep and Tenteta]208
189.[Limestone statue]209
190.[Limestone statue]209
191.[Limestone statue]210
192.[Limestone statue]210
193.[Woman kneading dough]211
194.[Woman making bread]212
195.[Bread maker]213
196, 197.[Details of head-dresses]213
198, 199.[Nem-hotep]214
200.[Funerary bas-relief]215
201.[Bas-relief from the tomb of Ti]217
202.[Bas-relief from the tomb of Ti]218
203.[Sepulchral bas-relief]219
204.[Bas-relief from the tomb of Ra-ka-pou]219
205.[Statue of Chephren]222
206.[Wooden statue]227
207.[Sebek-hotep III.]229
208.[Sphinx in black granite]231
209.[Head and shoulders of a Tanite Sphinx in black granite]233
210.[Group from Tanis]234
211.[Side view of the same group]235
212.[Upper part of a royal statue]236
213.[Fragmentary statuette of a king]237
214.[Thothmes III.]241
215.[Thothmes III.]243
216.[Statuette of Amenophis IV.]245
217.[Funeral Dance]251
218.[Bas-relief from the tomb of Chamhati]253
219.[Portrait of Rameses II. while a child]255
220.[Statue of Rameses II.]256
221.[Prisoners of war]257
222.[Statue of Rameses II. in the Turin Museum]259
223.[Head of Menephtah]260
224.[Seti II.]261
225.[The Goddess Kadesh]263
226.[Statue of Ameneritis]264
227.[Bronze Sphinx]267
228.[Statue of Nekht-har-heb]268
229.[Statue of Horus]269
230, 231.[Bas-relief from Memphis]270, 271
232.[Horus enthroned]273
233.[Roman head]274
234.[Wooden statuette]279
235.[Bronze cat]280
236.[Lion]281
237.[Bronze lion]282
238.[Sphinx with human hands]283
239.[Quadruped with the head of a bird]284
240.[Portrait of Rameses II.]286
241.[Intaglio upon sardonyx, obverse]289
242.[Reverse of the same intaglio]289
243.[Intaglio upon jasper]290
244.[Reverse of the same intaglio]290
245.[Seal of Armais]290
246.[Bas-relief from Sakkarah]295
247.[The Queen waiting on Amenophis IV.]296
248.[Bas-relief from the eighteenth dynasty]297
249.[Horus as a child]299
250.[Bas-relief from the tomb of Ti]306
251.[Bas-relief at Thebes]307
252.[From a painting at Thebes]308
253.[Painting at Thebes]309
254.[Painting at Thebes]310
255.[Painting at Thebes]311
256.[Bronze statuette]312
257.[Spoon for perfumes]313
258.[Design transferred by squaring]320
259.[Design transferred by squaring]321
260.[Head of a Cynocephalus]323
261.[Head of a Lion]323
262.[Head of a Lioness]323
263.[Outline for a portrait of Amenophis III.]333
264.[Portrait of Queen Taia]339
265.[Painting at Beni-Hassan]341
266.[Painting at Beni-Hassan]342
267.[Painting at Beni-Hassan]342
268.[Painting at Beni-Hassan]343
269.[Painting at Thebes]343
270.[Painting at Thebes]344
271.[Harpist]345
272.[European prisoner]347
273.[Head of the same prisoner]347
274.[Ethiopian prisoner]348
275.[Head of the same prisoner]348
276.[Winged figure]349
277.[Winged figure]350
278.[Battle of the Cats and Rats]352
279.[The soles of a pair of sandals]354
280, 281.[The God Bes]354
282.[Vultures on a ceiling]356
283, 284.[Details from the tomb of Ptah-hotep]357
285.[Carpet hung across a pavilion]358
286.[Specimens of ceiling decorations]359
287.[Painting on a mummy case]361
288.[Winged globe]361
289, 290.[Tables for offerings]363
291.[Pitcher of red earth]368
292.[Red earthenware]369
293.[Gray earthenware]370
294.[The God Bes]370
295.[Pendant for necklace]371
296, 297.[Enamelled earthenware]371
298.[Enamelled faience]372
299.[Doorway in the Stepped Pyramid at Sakkarah]372
300-302.[Enamelled plaque from the Stepped Pyramid]373
303-305.[Enamelled earthenware plaques]374
306, 307.[Glass statuettes]376
308.[Mirror-handle]379
309.[Bronze hair-pin]379
310.[Bronze dagger]379
311.[Pectoral]381
312, 313.[Golden Hawks]382
314.[Ægis]383
315.[Necklace]385
316.[Osiris, Isis, and Horus]387
317, 318.[Rings]387
319, 320.[Ear-rings]387
321.[Ivory Plaque]388
322.[Ivory Castanet]389
323.[Fragment of an Ivory Castanet]391
324.[Workman splitting a piece of wood]392
325.[Joiner making a bed]392
326.[Coffer for sepulchral statuettes]393
327, 328.[Chairs]394
329-331.[Perfume spoons]395, 396
332-334.[Walking-stick handles]397
335.[Wooden pin or peg]398
336.[Hathoric capital]398

[A HISTORY OF ART IN ANCIENT EGYPT]