The arts and crafts of our Teutonic forefathers . rigin of garnet inlays, really collapsesinto nothing in face of a few historical facts, whichwill be now briefly set down. The artistic use of coloured inlays can be car-ried back to a remote epoch both in Egypt and inBabylonia, and in regard to the former country theobjects exhibited in London in 19lo by the BritishSchool of Archaeology in Egypt weretomost peoplea revelation. Coloured pastes, arranged to producefiorure designs in undercut sinkinofs in stone, werethen seen to have been in use at the close of the3rd dynasty, in the fifth millenn
The arts and crafts of our Teutonic forefathers . rigin of garnet inlays, really collapsesinto nothing in face of a few historical facts, whichwill be now briefly set down. The artistic use of coloured inlays can be car-ried back to a remote epoch both in Egypt and inBabylonia, and in regard to the former country theobjects exhibited in London in 19lo by the BritishSchool of Archaeology in Egypt weretomost peoplea revelation. Coloured pastes, arranged to producefiorure designs in undercut sinkinofs in stone, werethen seen to have been in use at the close of the3rd dynasty, in the fifth millennium , but it iswith the more delicate inlays in gold that we arehere chiefly concerned. The monumental history of this inlaid gold jewel-lery begins in Egypt in the time of the 12th dynastyor about 2500 That is to say, the earliest datableexamples of this kind of work which we possesscome from that time and place. Fig. 110, on PlateXXVIII, shows one of the very finest existingexamples. The red is cornelian, the blues are 176 PLATE XXIII. 01 Sg. EARLY BRONZE AGE , COPEN-HAGEN. 91. EAGLE IN GOLD, INLAID, FROM THESIBERIAN TREASURE IN THE HERMI-TAGE, ST. PETERSBURG. 90. INLAID GOLD ARMLET FROM BALKH,IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 92. GRECO-SCVTHIAN GOLD WORK AT HISTORY OF INLAYS glass pastes. It is from Dahshur, in the Cairo Mu-seum. The British Museum has recently acquired asmall Egyptian headdress in gold set with inlays oflapis lazuli dating about looo , and some earlyGreek gold jewellery of the Mycenaean period from^gina, dating from about the same time, is inlaid inexactly the same fashion. Rather later may be placedcertain inlaid objects of ivory, probably of Phoenicianmanufacture, that were found in the north-west palaceat Nimrud in Assyria. Numerous examples ofinlaid work in Egypt bring us in point of date tothe period of the rise of the Persian monarchy, with-in the vast domains of which both Egypt and alsoHellenic Ionia were in the sixth centur
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