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Fig. 57. Egyptian Siege Scene from Tomb of Anta (Vth Dynasty).

alone appear on the wall-tops and battlements. About the beginning of
the Nineteenth Dynasty, however, as in the relief recording the capture of
Kadesh by Sety I1—shortly after 1320 B.C.—a more varied and lively
version makes its appearance, and a further dramatization is visible in

1 In the great hypostyle Hall of Karnak (Lepsius, Venkmaler, iii, &c).