Manual of Egyptian archæology and guide to the study of antiquities in EgyptFor the use of students and travellers . brilliant bluemuch like that of lapis lazuli or turquoise. TheCairo Museum formerly possessed three hippopotamiin this colour discovered at Drah abul Neggeh in thetomb of an Antef. One of these was lying down, theothers standing inthe marshes ; ontheir bodies thepotter has drawn inblack ink sketchesof reeds and lotusamong which birds ifeipi«BP«6^^^?55!!^ and butterflies are yig. 258.—Hippopotamus in blue glaze. flying (fig. 258). It was his method of representing the animal amon
Manual of Egyptian archæology and guide to the study of antiquities in EgyptFor the use of students and travellers . brilliant bluemuch like that of lapis lazuli or turquoise. TheCairo Museum formerly possessed three hippopotamiin this colour discovered at Drah abul Neggeh in thetomb of an Antef. One of these was lying down, theothers standing inthe marshes ; ontheir bodies thepotter has drawn inblack ink sketchesof reeds and lotusamong which birds ifeipi«BP«6^^^?55!!^ and butterflies are yig. 258.—Hippopotamus in blue glaze. flying (fig. 258). It was his method of representing the animal among his natural surroundings. The blue is deep and brilliant in tone, and wemust take a flight over twenty centuries to find itsequal among the funerary statuettes from Deir elBahari. The green reappears under the Saitedynasties, but paler than it was in the earlier predominated in Lower Egypt, at Memphis,Bubastis, and Sais, but without entirely eliminatingthe blue. The other colours were only in commonuse during four or five centuries, from the time ofA^hmes I. to the time of the Ramessides. It is. 300 THE INDUSTRIAL ARTS.
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