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Egyptian Art: Studies

Chapter 49: Transcriber’s Notes
By G. Maspero
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About This Book

The volume gathers essays written over decades that examine ancient Egyptian sculpture, small statuary, jewelry, and ritual objects, combining on-site descriptions of recent discoveries with museum studies. It surveys regional schools and workshops, analyzes portrait heads, scribe figures, royal colossi, votive animals, canopic equipment, and metalwork, and discusses technique, materials, and the funerary functions that shaped form and style. Illustrated case studies follow specific finds and groups to show shifts in production, local conventions, and the artist’s aims to preserve identity for an afterlife, offering both detailed object studies and broader interpretive principles for appreciating ancient Egyptian artistic practices.

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UNWIN BROTHERS, LIMITED
WOKING AND LONDON.

Transcriber’s Notes

Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed.

Spelling discrepancies between the main text and the Index were resolved in favor of the main text.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; unpaired quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unpaired.

Illustrations in this eBook have been positioned between paragraphs and outside quotations. In versions of this eBook that support hyperlinks, the page references in the List of Illustrations lead to the corresponding illustrations.

Most full-page illustrations included printer’s instructions specifying “To face p. xxx.” Those instructions have been removed from this eBook.

Footnotes, originally at the bottoms of pages, have been collected, sequentially numbered, and placed at the end of this eBook, just before the Index. References to those footnotes have been renumbered in the same way.

The index was not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references.