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al-Matḥaf al-Miṣrī <al-Qāhira> [Editor]
Le Musée Egyptien — 2.1904-1907

DOI article:
Maspero, Henri; Edgar, Campbell Cowan; Breccia, Annibale Evaristo; Lefebvre, Gustave; Spiegelberg, Wilhelm; Legrain, Georges: Le musée égyptien
DOI Page / Citation link:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.9426#0113
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—w( 103 )**—

again it is a pair of goats or of some other horned animalsThe same
heraldic arrangement of animals, real and imaginary, on each side of a
fantastic tree is found again on the Phœnician paterae, which probably owe
so much to Egyptian models. The naturalistic groups consist mostly of a calf at
full gallop attacked by a dog or a leopard, but here and there another kind
of beast is introduced. The whole frieze is neither a formal procession of animals,
of the sort which is so common in archaic Greek art, nor yet a connected scene.
It is a decorative medley, of which every separate part is full of life and
realism.

The style of the work is masterlv. The figures are beaten in low relief,
the outlines and inner markings strongly and surely engraved, without
elaboration.

Planche XLIX.—Three silver strainers, no doubt to be held over the drinking-
cup when wine or other liquor was being poured out. They are all of about the
same size, being from 10 to 11 centimetres in diameter. They are entered in
the Journal d'entrée under n° 3 8y 16.

The topmost one in the photograph has a rather deep, hemispherical bottom.
A good many of the little holes, especially of those near the top, are not pierced
right through. The handle, which is broken off short, has a fluting on each
side : probably it curved in below and was soldered to the outside of the bowl,
though no trace of the junction remains.

The second strainer is of the same shape as the first, but the flat handle has
a lotus llower engraved upon it, a common device in Egyptian metal-work. The
lower part of the handle, which is broken off, has got separated by mistake and
is photographed among the miscellaneous objects on plate L (top row, second
from right) : it has apparently been soldered to the side of the bowl.

The third strainer is much shallower than the other two(2). The handle, like
that of the second, has a llower of blue lotus engraved upon it, and the lower
end is attached to the bowl by a rivet.

Planche L. — These are specimens of the minor objects of silver, an almost
random selection of bangles, pins, finger-rings, earrings, etc. The scale of the
photograph is about h : 5.

(1) Cf. Edgar, Sculptors' studies, pl. XXXIX, n° 334yo, B. For an example of the same subject
in Mycenaean art see Bulletin de Correspondance hellénique, 1907, p. 118, fig. 2. The same scheme
.treated realistically, occurs on the Beni Hassan paintings.
Cf. Bissing, Metallgefässe, n° 3536.
 
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