A history of art in ancient Egypt (1883) (14792412113)

Identifier: historyofartinan01perruoft (find matches)
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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ry them to the farthest corners of thevalley, and Egypt gradually arose out of the waters and becamein the hand of man one of the best adapted countries in theworld for the development of a great civilization,^ How many generations did it require to create the countryand the nation ? We cannot tell. But we may affirm that a ^ Maspero, Histoire ancienne, p. 17.2 Histoire des Longiies sanitiqiies, Book i. ch. ii. § 4. ^ See Lepsius, Ucber die Atwahme ei?ies sogenatmtcn prehistorischcn Stcinaltcrs inALgypten (in the ZeitscJuHft fiir ALgypiische Sprache, 1870, p. 113, at seq.).^ Maspero, p. 18. H A History of Art in Ancient Egypt. commencement was made by the simultaneous establishment atseveral different points of small independent states, each of whichhad its own laws and its own form of worship. These districtsremained almost unchanged in number and in their respectiveboundaries almost up to the end of the ancient world. Theirunion under one sceptre formed the kingdom of the Pharaohs,
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jBI»V^4;^,>^C^C/J^^ -^i H^A^ I >^>5 Fig. 8.—Hunting in the Marthes ; from a tas-relief in tlie tomb of Ti. the country of Khemi, but their primitive divisions did not there-fore disappear ; the small independent states became provincesand were the foundation of those local administrative districtswhich the Greeks called nomes. Besides this division into districts, the Egyptians had oneother, and only one—the division into Lower Egypt, or the Tpie Valley of the Nile and its Inhabitants. 15 North Country (Toiiiera, or To-meJi), and into Upper Egypt,or the South Country (To-res). Lower Egypt consisted of theDelta; Upper Egypt stretched from the southernmost point ofthe Delta to the first cataract. This division has the advantageof corresponding exactly to the configuration of the country ;moreover, it preserves the memory of a period before the timeof Menes, during which Egypt was divided into two separatekingdoms—that of the North and that of the South, a divisionwhich i