. A history of art in ancient Egypt . , and make The weight of this stopper is about four tons, and it lias long been a puzzle toegyptologists how it, and others like it, could be raised and lowered. M. Perrotswords must not, therefore, be taken too literally.—Ed. - Arthur Rhonk, LEgypte a peites Journces, p. 259. 2o6 A History of Art in Ancient Egypt. a greater show with less labour. Mycerinus, however, did notfear to increase his task by rearing his pyramid over a depressionin the plateau. There is no less diversity in the external aspects of thepyramids. We are most familiar with the shapes
. A history of art in ancient Egypt . , and make The weight of this stopper is about four tons, and it lias long been a puzzle toegyptologists how it, and others like it, could be raised and lowered. M. Perrotswords must not, therefore, be taken too literally.—Ed. - Arthur Rhonk, LEgypte a peites Journces, p. 259. 2o6 A History of Art in Ancient Egypt. a greater show with less labour. Mycerinus, however, did notfear to increase his task by rearing his pyramid over a depressionin the plateau. There is no less diversity in the external aspects of thepyramids. We are most familiar with the shapes of the greatpyramids at Gizeh (Fig. 130 and PI. I, 2); their images havebeen multiplied to infinity by engraving and photography, but wemake a great mistake when we imagine all the royal tombs atMemphis to be built upon this one model. They do not allpresent the same simplicity of form, the same regular slope fromsummit to base, or the smooth and polished casing which distin-guished those great monuments when they were in complete. 0 ic i2 -TT-* —±r FiG. 132.—Section of the pyramid of Cheops ; from Perring. preservation. The southern pyramid of Dashour otters us oneof the most curious variations upon the original theme (Fig. 133).Its anofle-ridofes are not unbroken straight lines from base tosummit. The slope of its faces becomes less steep at abouthalf their height. The lower part of its sides make angles of54° 41 with the horizon, while above they suddenly fall back toan angle of 42° 59. This latter slope does not greatly differ fromthe 43° 36 of the other pyramid in the same neighbourhood. Noindication has vet been discovered as to the builder of thispyramid. A second variation, still more unlike the Gizeh type, is to be The Tomb under the Ancient Empire. !07 found in the great pyramid of Sakkarah, the Stepped Pyramid,which was considered by Mariette as the oldest of them a passage from Manetho as his authority, he thoughthimself justified in attributin
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