Manual of Egyptian archæology and guide to the study of antiquities in EgyptFor the use of students and travellers . e is a papyrus flower, and the petalsdrooping on their stem rest on the rim of thejug (fig. 306). The handle of a knife or spoonis almost always the curved neck of a duck ora goose. The bowl of the spoon may be ananimal, such as a gazelle bound ready forsacrifice (fig. 307), and on the handle of asabre a small jackal is seated. The upper halfof a pair of scissors at Cairo is formed of anAsiatic captive, with arms bound behind hisback. A mirror is composed of a leaf, thestalk for
Manual of Egyptian archæology and guide to the study of antiquities in EgyptFor the use of students and travellers . e is a papyrus flower, and the petalsdrooping on their stem rest on the rim of thejug (fig. 306). The handle of a knife or spoonis almost always the curved neck of a duck ora goose. The bowl of the spoon may be ananimal, such as a gazelle bound ready forsacrifice (fig. 307), and on the handle of asabre a small jackal is seated. The upper halfof a pair of scissors at Cairo is formed of anAsiatic captive, with arms bound behind hisback. A mirror is composed of a leaf, thestalk forming the handle. Onebox for perfumes is a fish, anotheris a bird, and a third is a grotesquedeity. Vases for holy watercarried by priests and priestessesto sprinkle the faithful, or theground over which processions Fig. , Gr^co-were about to pass, merit a Roman period, special place of honour among connoisseurs. The)are pointed or ovoid at the lower end, anddecorated with designs in outline or relief. Some-times there are figures of deities, each enclosed ina separate framework, and sometimes scenes of. 342 THE INDUSTRIAL ARTS. ^m -•^i- prayer or of lustration, and the work is generally extremely good. Both copper and bronze were early employed r;,?>v statuary. The statue of Pepi I. discovered byOuibell at Kom elAhmar has already beenmentioned. The tech-nique is not the leastinteresting thing aboutit. Bust, legs, and armswere hammered out andfitted together mostaccurately ; the hands,face, and feet were possess some piecesof the Eighteenth andNineteenth Dynasties ;the chased lions headfound with the jewelsand weapons of QueenAahhotep, the Harpo-crates of Cairo thatbears the names ofKarnes and of Aahmes I.,and several figures ofAmon in the samemuseum, said to comefrom Aledinet Habu and
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