Capart, Jean, 1877-1947 · London : H. Grevel · leaf 220
PRIMITIVE ART IN EGYPT. 196 European figures, they have a tenon in the middle of the back to permit of their being suspended^ (Fig. 154). In certain tombs of the earHest primitive period, between the sequence dates 3^ and 44, there is found a pair of ivory horns or tusks. One is always solid, the… … Fig. 154. — Double Bull's Head Amulets. Hilton Price Collection. sometimes quite undecorated, ending in a point," and pierced at that end for suspension ; sometimes at the pointed end there is a groove and ring. In this case there are two eyes, and lines indicating a beard engraved on the surface…
Art -- Egypt · Egypt -- Antiquities
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