This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...and the red polished. On the other pottery we have studied, the cross-lined and the decorated, they do not occur.1 If we follow Petrie in classifying these marks under different headings, the results we shall gather are as follows2 (Fig. 111). The human figure rarely appears.3 In one instance an animal, which is ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...and the red polished. On the other pottery we have studied, the cross-lined and the decorated, they do not occur.1 If we follow Petrie in classifying these marks under different headings, the results we shall gather are as follows2 (Fig. 111). The human figure rarely appears.3 In one instance an animal, which is difficult to identify, is apparently devouring the head of a man, a group which recalls the mythological Mahes. Figures of animals occur more frequently, and with one exception they differ little in style from those painted on vases, and perhaps resemble most closely those on the crosslined pottery. The most usual types are the elephant, hippopotamus, various kinds of antelope, and possibly the giraffe.5 Birds are less frequent, and the species represented are not easily identifiable; one recognizes, however, the bird with long feet, and with the neck curved into an S, which frequently occurs on the decorated pottery." Crocodiles and serpents are often found.7 Floral designs are limited to summary sketches of the palm-tree and of various kinds of vegetation not easy to determine.8 Boats, while they are rare, are not entirely 1 Petrie, Naqada, p. 44. The marks D 2o are from a slate palette which Petrie has omitted to describe in Diospolis. The original is in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, and is reproduced earlier in the book in dealing with palettes with incised ornamentation. 3 Petrie, Naqada, pi. li. 1, 2, 7. According to Pleyte, Chapitres supplementaircs du Livre des Morts, i. p. 41, "Ce n est pas qu'apres la xx." dynastie que le titre ou nom de Mahes devient un nom de dieu." 1 believe the representations of this god to be rare. I will quote Naos D 29 at the Louvre (pierret, Pantheon egyptien, fig. on p. 79), a whip handle...
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