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EGYPTIAN ART
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
New Light on Ancient Egypt.
Translated by Elizabeth Lee.
Illustrated. Demy 8vo, cloth. 12/6 net. Cheap Edition
6/- net.
Egypt: Ancient Sites and Modern Scenes.
Translated by Elizabeth Lee.
With Coloured Frontispiece and 16 other Illustrations.
Demy 8vo, cloth. 12/6 net.
LONDON: T. FISHER UNWIN
EGYPTIAN ART
STUDIES
BY
SIR GASTON MASPERO
Hon. K.C.M.G., Hon. D.C.L., and Fellow of Queen’s College, Oxford
Member of the Institute of France, Professor at the Collège de France,
Director-General of the Service des Antiquités, Cairo
TRANSLATED BY ELIZABETH LEE
WITH 107 ILLUSTRATIONS
T. FISHER UNWIN
LONDON: ADELPHI TERRACE
LEIPSIC: INSELSTRASSE 20
First published in 1913
(All rights reserved)
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PREFATORY NOTE
The following essays were written during a period of morethan thirty years, and published at intervals of varyinglengths. The oldest of them appeared in Les Monumentsde l’Art Antique of my friend Olivier Rayet, and theothers in La Nature at the request of Gaston Tissandier, inthe Gazette des Beaux-Arts, in the Monuments Piot, andchiefly in the Revue de l’Art Ancien et Moderne, where myfriend Jules Comte gave them hospitality. As most ofthese periodicals do not circulate in purely scientific circles,the essays are almost unknown to experts, and will forthe greater part be new to them. Indeed, they were notintended for them. In writing them, I desired to familiarizethe general public, who were scarcely aware of their existence,with some of the fine pieces of Egyptian sculp