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Identifier: ancientegyptiana00hous (find matches)
Title: Ancient Egyptian, Assyrian, and Persian costumes and decorations
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Houston, Mary G. (Mary Galway), b. 1871 Hornblower, Florence S
Subjects: Costume Costume Costume
Publisher: London : A. & C. Black, limited
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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Fig. 11 Fig, 12 Compare Fig, 12 with Plate II. where the draperyhere given has suggested in its lines a decoration ofstripes. m ANCIENT EGYPTIAN COSTUME Plate IX. The noteworthy details of the decorations on thisplate are those illustrated at a and b. These areappendages from girdles such as worn by male figures;an example is Fig. 21. The material of this appendagemay be possibly of painted leather, wool embroideredlinen, or linen with metal mounts. Many beautifulpainted illustrations of this girdle appendage are to befound in the British Museum; e is from a feather fan. 28 PLATE IX
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I,S,H. fee. DETAILS OF DECORATION 29 ANCIENT EGYPTIAN COSTUME Fig. 13 is an Egj^tian womans costume dating1450 B.C.; she is wearing two garments—namely, a skirtand cloak. This skirt, which is frequently worn alonewithout the cloak, as shown in Fig. 12, is cut to exactlythe same width top and bottom. It is wide for thefigure, and the superfluous fullness is caught up in eachhand in the act of putting on. The upper edge ofgarment is drawn tightly round the figure just underthe breasts ; the portions held in each hand are then tiedtogether in a knot. In Fig. 13 the cloak is knotted inwith the skirt; this cloak is simply a rectangular pieceof material. It will be noted that Figs. 13, 14, and 15all show the popular Egyptian effect of drapery drawntightly round the back of the limbs and falling fullin front. Fig. 14, which dates a.d. 200, shows a Romanadaptation of the same costume. The figure wearsunderneath a long tunic, and over this, tightening it inat the waist, an Egyptian skirt; a

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