Manual of Egyptian archæology and guide to the study of antiquities in EgyptFor the use of students and travellers . Fig. 199.—King Khasekhemui,Third Dynasty, at Oxford. 234 PAINTING AND SCULPTURE. conventional attitude of later Egyptian art is alreadyadopted (fig. 199). The face shows calm power andalert expression. The excellence of the work, not-withstanding some roughness of execution, proves thatthe Pharaoh of that period could command the servicesof an experienced sculptor, trained in a school thatwas rapidly gaining power and certainty of is to be hoped that future excavati
Manual of Egyptian archæology and guide to the study of antiquities in EgyptFor the use of students and travellers . Fig. 199.—King Khasekhemui,Third Dynasty, at Oxford. 234 PAINTING AND SCULPTURE. conventional attitude of later Egyptian art is alreadyadopted (fig. 199). The face shows calm power andalert expression. The excellence of the work, not-withstanding some roughness of execution, proves thatthe Pharaoh of that period could command the servicesof an experienced sculptor, trained in a school thatwas rapidly gaining power and certainty of is to be hoped that future excavations will pro-. Fig. •Rahotep, Third Dynast}^, fiom Medu:n. ducc many more works of the primitive dynastiesthat yet sleep undiscovered beneath the sands ofEgypt. Those of the Old Kingdom are daily ex-humed from the tombs and temples scattered overthe great pyramid area. These have not yieldedEgyptian art as a whole, but they have familiarisedus with one of its schools, the school of were other schools, notably those of the Delta,Hermopolis, Ekhmim, Abydos, Denderah, Thebes, STATUARY OF THE OLD EMPIRE. 235 Assiian, whose work does not begin to appear earlierthan about the Sixth Dynasty. Memphis was thecapital, and the presence of the Pharaoh must haveattracted all the talent of the vassal from the result of excavation in the Mem-phite necropolis alone, it is possible to determine thecharacteristics of both sculpture and painting in the
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