The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . ltitude we may light upon examples showing amarked individuality : the statuette of the lady Takushit, which now formsone of the ornaments of the museum at Athens, is an instance. She standserect, one foot in advance, her right arm hanging at her side, her left pressedagainst her bosom; she is arrayed in a short dress embroidered over withreligious scenes, and wears upon her ankles and wrists rings of value. A wig Drawn by Fauclier-Gudin, from a photograph. Bronze respondents are somewhat rare, anJ most of those wbicli are to be found a
The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . ltitude we may light upon examples showing amarked individuality : the statuette of the lady Takushit, which now formsone of the ornaments of the museum at Athens, is an instance. She standserect, one foot in advance, her right arm hanging at her side, her left pressedagainst her bosom; she is arrayed in a short dress embroidered over withreligious scenes, and wears upon her ankles and wrists rings of value. A wig Drawn by Fauclier-Gudin, from a photograph. Bronze respondents are somewhat rare, anJ most of those wbicli are to be found among thedealers are counterfeit. The Gizeh Museum possesses two examples at least of indisputable authen-ticity (Maspero, Guide (hi Visiteur, Nos. 1501 and 1601, pp. 133, 134); both of these belong to theXX dynasty. Maspero, Arch^oloyie Egyptienne, pp. 294, 295. * Maspero, Statuette Egyptienne de bronze incruste dargent de la collection di Demetrio, in the-Gazette ArcMologique, 18S3, pp. 1S5-1S9, and pis. 33, 34; cf. ArcMologie tgyptienne, pp. 292, From al^ronze in the Museum at Athens Printed m Pans Plate III 1 METAL-FOUNDING, BRONZE. 535
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