Manual of Egyptian archæology and guide to the study of antiquities in EgyptFor the use of students and travellers . ses the lions ears. Smxall eyes,an aquiline nose rounded at the base, high cheek-bones, the lower lip slightly protruding, a countenanceso little in accord with what we are accustomed tofind in Egypt that they were at one time supposedto be of Asiatic origin (fig. 213). M. Golenischeff,however, has shown that they were executed forAmenemhat III. of the Twelfth Dynasty, and withhis features. Whatever the origin of the Taniteschool that produced these specimens, it continuedto exi
Manual of Egyptian archæology and guide to the study of antiquities in EgyptFor the use of students and travellers . ses the lions ears. Smxall eyes,an aquiline nose rounded at the base, high cheek-bones, the lower lip slightly protruding, a countenanceso little in accord with what we are accustomed tofind in Egypt that they were at one time supposedto be of Asiatic origin (fig. 213). M. Golenischeff,however, has shown that they were executed forAmenemhat III. of the Twelfth Dynasty, and withhis features. Whatever the origin of the Taniteschool that produced these specimens, it continuedto exist long after the expulsion of the Hyksosinvaders, since one of its works, the group of thetwo Niles of the North and of the South, bearing SCULrTURE OF THE NEW EMPIRE. 25 trays laden with flowers and fish, was consecratedby Pisebkhanu of the Twenty-first Dynasty. The first three dynasties of the New Kingdom havebequeathed us more monuments than all the othersput together ; bas-reliefs, paintings, statues of kingsand of private persons, colossi, and sphinxes canbe counted by hundreds between the Fourth Cataract. Fig. 213.—One of the Tanis sphinxes, and the mouths of the Nile. The old sacerdotalcities, Memphis, Thebes, Abydos, are naturally therichest, and the ancient schools of Memphis andTanis still preserved their traditions, but so greatw^as the impetus given to art that even remote pro-vincial towns could boast of producing it is to the Theban school, the royal city andworkshops of Thebes, and the funerary workshops 256 PAINTING AND SCULPTURE. of the western valley that most of the work of thisperiod is due. The royal workshops at Karnak pro-duced the official portraits of the Pharaohs. Amen-hotep I. is at Turin, Thothmes I. and Thothmes at the British Museum and at Turin, as wellas at Cairo. The favissa at Karnak discovered byM. Legrain in 1903 contributed about eight hundredstatues of the Theban school, of Pharaohs, and ofeminent personages.
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