Capart, Jean, 1877-1947 · London : H. Grevel · leaf 97
ENTAL AND DECORATIVE ART. T: the type derived from the figure of ;i bird.' Petrie beUeves that in two instances he can identify representations of the giraffe. I believe that it is more probably a simplification of the type of antelope- (Fig. 41). Another type is the head of a bull, full face, also… … Fig. 1^. — Fragment of an Ivory Knife-handle with a Figure of an Antelope. Berlin Museum. simplified forms, which only remotely suggest the original. The principle of symmetry again intervenes to augment the confusion, by placing the same conventional figure of a bird ' at each end • Petrie, ih.…
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