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Primitive art in Egypt (1905)

Capart, Jean, 1877-1947 · London : H. Grevel · leaf 185

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turp: and painting. i6i queen, the queen of Punt.' These curious statuettes arc in two positions, cither standini^ or seated.- The specimens in the Ashmolean Museum, Ox- ford, reproduced here, are of a greyish clay, covered with a brilliant red glaze, and still show traces of black paint (Figs.… … Naqada, the cephalic index — for the men, 72, y^i I for the women, y^, 13 — induces a comparison with 123. — Steatopygous Clay TiciURKS. those of the Hottentots, Ashmolean Museum. the Bushmen (72, 42) the Kaffirs (72, 54). The discovery made b}- Flinders Petrie at Naqada itself of steatopygous…

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