The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . From al^ronze in the Museum at Athens Printed m Pans Plate III 1 METAL-FOUNDING, BRONZE. 535. SHKINE IN THE TUKIN MCSEUM. with stiff-looking locks, regularly arranged in rows, covers her head. Tliedetails of the drapery and the ornaments are incised on the surface of thebronze, and heishtened with a thread of silver. The face is evidently aportrait, and is that apparentlyof a woman of mature age,but the body, according tothe tradition of the Egyptianschools of art, is that of ayoung girl, lithe, firm, andelastic. The alloy containsgold,
The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . From al^ronze in the Museum at Athens Printed m Pans Plate III 1 METAL-FOUNDING, BRONZE. 535. SHKINE IN THE TUKIN MCSEUM. with stiff-looking locks, regularly arranged in rows, covers her head. Tliedetails of the drapery and the ornaments are incised on the surface of thebronze, and heishtened with a thread of silver. The face is evidently aportrait, and is that apparentlyof a woman of mature age,but the body, according tothe tradition of the Egyptianschools of art, is that of ayoung girl, lithe, firm, andelastic. The alloy containsgold, and the warm and soft-ened liglits reflected from itblend most happily and har-moniously with the white linesof the designs. The joiners oc-cupied, after the workers inbronze, an important positionin relation to the necropolis,and the greater part of thefurniture which they executed for the mummies of persons of high rankwas remarkable for its painting and carpentry-work. Some articles of theirmanufacture were intended for religious use—such as those shrines, mountedupon sledges, on which the image of the god was placed, to whom prayers werem
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