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Book SynopsisIn writing this book, the author desired to familiarize the general public with some of the fine pieces of Egyptian sculpture and goldsmiths' work, and to point out how to approach them in order to appreciate their worth.
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations; Preface; Egyptian Statuary and its Schools; Some Portraits of Mycerinus; A Scribes Head of the IVth or Vth Dynasty; Skhemka, his Wife and Son: a Group found at Memphis; The Crouching Scribe: Vth Dynasty; The New Scribe of the Gizeh Museum; The Kneeling Scribe: Vth Dynasty; Pehournowri: Statuette in painted Limestone found at Memphis; The Dwarf Khnoumhotpou: Vth or VIth Dynasty; The Favissa of Karnak, and the Theban School of Sculpture; The Cow of Deîr-el-Baharî; The Statuette of Amenôphis IV; Four Canopic Heads found in the Valley of the Kings at Thebes; A Head of the Pharaoh Harmhabi; The Colossus of Ramses II at Bedrecheîn; Egyptian Jewellery in the Louvre; The Treasure of Zagazig; Three Statuettes in Wood; A Fragment of a Theban Statuette; The Lady Touî of the Louvre and Egyptian Industrial Sculpture in Wood; Some Perfume Ladles of the XVIIIth Dynasty; Some Green Basalt Statuettes of the Saïte Period; A Find of Saïte Jewels at Saqqarah; A Bronze Egyptian Cat belonging to M Barrère; A Find of Cats in Egypt; Index.
