Manual of Egyptian archæology and guide to the study of antiquities in EgyptFor the use of students and travellers . high rank in full dress seated on a couch, while awretched Tom of piteous appearance, w^ith his tailbetween his legs, is handing her refreshments (fig. 174).We also possess an abundance of pen drawingsillustrating religiousworks. Almost allof these works arecopies of the Bookof the Dead and theBook of knowmgthat ivhich is in theUnderworld. Theywere copied by hun-dreds from ancientmanuscripts preserved in the temples, or in familieswhere the cult of the dead was the hereditary pr
Manual of Egyptian archæology and guide to the study of antiquities in EgyptFor the use of students and travellers . high rank in full dress seated on a couch, while awretched Tom of piteous appearance, w^ith his tailbetween his legs, is handing her refreshments (fig. 174).We also possess an abundance of pen drawingsillustrating religiousworks. Almost allof these works arecopies of the Bookof the Dead and theBook of knowmgthat ivhich is in theUnderworld. Theywere copied by hun-dreds from ancientmanuscripts preserved in the temples, or in familieswhere the cult of the dead was the hereditary pro-fession. The artist therefore had to make no demandson his imagination ; all he had to do was to trans-cribe as well as possible from the copy given rolls of the Book of knoiuing that -which is in theUndeiivorld which we possess are not earlier than theTwentieth Dynasty. The workmanship is often bad,and the figures are little more than summary scrawlshurriedly drawn and badly proportioned. Copies ofthe Bcok of the Dead ^rc so numerous that from thissource alone a history of miniature painting in Egypt. Fig. 174. —Comic sketch on ostracon inNew York Museum. iqS PAINTING AND SCULPTURE. might be compiled ; some are as early as theEighteenth Dynasty, while others are of the time ofthe earlier Caesars. The oldest copies are for themost part remarkably fine in execution. Eachchapter has a vignette representing a divinity eitherin animal or human form, and a sacred emblem, orthe deceased in adoration before the divinit}. Thesesmall designs are, in some instances, ranged in asingle line above the text (fig. 175); in others they arescattered about the pages like the illuminated capitals
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