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Identifier: historyofartinan01perruoft Title: A history of art in ancient Egypt Year: 1883 (1880s) Authors: Perrot, Georges, 1832-1914 Chipiez, Charles, 1835-1901 Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 Subjects: Art -- Egypt History Egypt -- Antiquities Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Text Appearing Before Image: Fjg. 14. -Rameses II. in adoration before Seti.From Abydos (Mariette). 26 A History of Art in Ancient Egypt. enterprise, the barrage of the Nile, the only method thought of forobtaining the necessary labour was compulsion,^ An order isreceived by the governor, who has it proclaimed from one villageto another throughout his province ; next day the w^hole malepopulation is driven, like a troop of sheep, to the workshops.Each man carries a bag or basket which holds his provisions for afortnight or a month, as the case may be ; a few dry cakes, onions,garlic, and Egyptian beans, as the Greeks called the species ofalmond which is contained in the fruit of the lotus. Old men andchildren, all had to obey the summons. The more vigorous andskilful among them dressed and put in place the blocks of graniteor limestone ; the weakest were useful for the transport of therubbish to a distance, for carrying clay and water from the Nile to

Text Appearing After Image: Fig. 15 —Homage to Amenophis III. (From Prisse.-) the brickmakers, for arranging the bricks in the sun so that theymight be dried and hardened. Under the stimulus of the rod, this multitude worked well andobediently under the directions of the architects foreman and ofskilled artisans who were permanently employed upon the work ;they did all that could be done by men without special education.At the end of a certain period they were relieved by fresh levies 1 The beaters for the great hunts which took place in the Delta and the Fayoumwere procured in the same fashion. These hunts were among the favourite pleasuresof the kings and the great lords. See Maspero, Le Papyrus Mallet, p. 58 (inRecueil de Travaux, etc. t. i). ^ The work to which we here refer is the Histoire de VArt Egyptien dapres lesMonuments, 2 vols, folio. Arthus Bertrand, 1878. As the plates are not numbered,we can only refer to them generally. The Constitution of Egyptian Society, 27 from another province, and all who

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