. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . 413 seats, footstools, and beds of carved wood, painted and inlaid, the vases of hardstone, metal, or enamelled ware,the necklaces, bracelets, andornaments on the walls, eventhe common pottery of which wefind the remains in the neigh-bourhood of the pyramids, aregenerally distinguished by anelegance and grace reflectingcredit on the workmanship andtaste of the Thesquares of ivory which they ap-plied to their linen-chests andtheir iewel-cases often containedactual bas-reliefs in miniatureof as bold workmanship and asskilful execution as
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . 413 seats, footstools, and beds of carved wood, painted and inlaid, the vases of hardstone, metal, or enamelled ware,the necklaces, bracelets, andornaments on the walls, eventhe common pottery of which wefind the remains in the neigh-bourhood of the pyramids, aregenerally distinguished by anelegance and grace reflectingcredit on the workmanship andtaste of the Thesquares of ivory which they ap-plied to their linen-chests andtheir iewel-cases often containedactual bas-reliefs in miniatureof as bold workmanship and asskilful execution as the mostbeautiful pictures in the tombs :on these, moreover, were scenesof private life—dancing or pro-cessions bringing offerings One would like topossess some of those copperand golden statues which thePharaoh Kheops consecratedto Isis in honour of his dauch-ter : only the representation ofthem upon a stele has come down to us; and the fragments of sceptresor other objects which too rarely have reached us, have unfortunately no. STELE OF THE DAUGHTER OF KHEOF: 1 The study of the alabaster and diorite vases found near the pyramids has furnished Petrie{The Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh, p. 173, et seq.) with very ingenious views on the methodsamong the Egyptians of working hard stone. Examples of stone toilet or sacrificial bottles are notunfrequent in our museums : I may mention those in the Louvre whien bear the cartouches of DadkerîAssi (No. 343), of Papi I. (Nos. 351-354), and of Papi IL (Nos. 346-348), the son of Papi I. (Pierret,Catalogue de la Salle Historique, pp. 84-86) ; not that they are to he reckoned among the finest, butbecause the cartouches fix the date of their manufacture. They came from the pyramids of thesesovereigns, opened by the Arabs at the beginning of this century : the vase of the VIth dynasty,which is in the Museum at Florence, was brought from Abydos (Rosej-lini, Monumenti Storici,vol. iii. part 1, p. 5). s M. Grebaut bought at the G
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