Biblia (Volume 18) (Paperback)

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1905. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... A Monthly Journal of Oriental Research in ARCHEOLOGY, ETHNOLOGY, LITERATURE, RELIGION, HISTORY, EPIGRAPHY, GEOGRAPHY, LANGUAGES, ETC. Vol. XVIII. Meriden, Conn., July, 1905. No. 4 Egyptian Hrt--1ts Beginnings. The valuable Egyptological work " Les D6but de l'Art en Egypte," by M. Jean Capart, conservateur adjoint des antiques Egyptiennes des Mus6e Royaux of Brussels, which has attracted so much attention, has now been published in English by Messrs. Grevel & Co., of London and New York, under the title of "Primitive Art in Egypt." The English edition has been revised and augmented so as to embrace the most recent known discoveries, and possesses nearly 30 additional illustrations, increasing the number to over 3oo. Among these new plates is the new slate palette of the Louvre published by M. B6n6ditte, * and a number of early dynasty, or archaic, Egyptian antiquities at Berlin, which supplement in a most ample manner, the many specimens of primitive art already published by British and French explorers. *"Une Nouvelle Palette en Schiste" in the Monuments et Memoires publies par l'Academie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres X, 1003, pp. 105, 203. Among the most important illustrations from relics at Berlin are the fragment of a vase with a representation of a warrior armed with a hatchet, and wearing the " Karnata" appanage to be presently explained, and another vase piece with reliefs of boats; an ivory figure of a woman bearing a child, which may be considered as the earliest prototype of Isis and Horus ever likely to be discovered (No. 131), and a prehistoric bull's head amulet in ivory (No. 152), which connects itself with remains of primitive man's attempts at art at other sites in a most interesting manner. Of intense moment, too, for the possible connection bet...