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550 EXPEDITION TO BRANCHID^E.
supposition. "We know that a direct connection
between Ionia and Egypt had been established in
the reign of Psammetichus L, who maintained a
large force of Ionian and Carian mercenaries.1"
The importance of the trade between Egypt and
the Greek colonies on the west coast of Asia Minor
led to the establishment of an Hellenic factory at
Naukratis, in the reign of Amasis:11 the costly
dedications made to Hellenic deities by Neco at
Branchidae, and by Amasis at Eindus,1' are further
evidence of the friendly relations which those
monarchs maintained with the Asiatic Greeks.
The influence of Egyptian art, which is so mani-
fest in the Branchidae statues, is still more clearly
demonstrated through the discoveries recently made
by Messrs. Salzmann and Biliotti, at Camirus in
Bhodcs, where, in several instances, the same tomb
contained works of unquestionable Egyptian fabric
and objects imitated from Egyptian prototypes by
early Greek artists.5
The evidence of these extant monuments is an
p See ante, p. 15. 'l See ante, p. 13. * Herod, ii. 159, 182.
s Compare the objects found in the grotto of Polledrara near
Vulci, engraved in Micali, Momiui. Ined. Firenze, 1844. Taw.
iv.—viii. and now in the British Museum. The small bronze
figure, now in the Pourtales collection at Paris, and formerly
in the Museum Namanum at Venice, engraved, Mueller, Denk-
maeler d. a. Kunst, I. Taf. ix. fig. 32, which bears the inscrip-
tion IIpXuKprinjc aviOriKS, may also be considered as somewhat
Egyptian in character, or, to use the expression of Diodorus, i.
98,—wcipe^Kpepec -o7<; AlyvTrrioic. The genuineness of this work
has been doubted by Clarac, but admitted by Panofka and
others. There is a curious description in Cedrenus (Histor. Comp.
supposition. "We know that a direct connection
between Ionia and Egypt had been established in
the reign of Psammetichus L, who maintained a
large force of Ionian and Carian mercenaries.1"
The importance of the trade between Egypt and
the Greek colonies on the west coast of Asia Minor
led to the establishment of an Hellenic factory at
Naukratis, in the reign of Amasis:11 the costly
dedications made to Hellenic deities by Neco at
Branchidae, and by Amasis at Eindus,1' are further
evidence of the friendly relations which those
monarchs maintained with the Asiatic Greeks.
The influence of Egyptian art, which is so mani-
fest in the Branchidae statues, is still more clearly
demonstrated through the discoveries recently made
by Messrs. Salzmann and Biliotti, at Camirus in
Bhodcs, where, in several instances, the same tomb
contained works of unquestionable Egyptian fabric
and objects imitated from Egyptian prototypes by
early Greek artists.5
The evidence of these extant monuments is an
p See ante, p. 15. 'l See ante, p. 13. * Herod, ii. 159, 182.
s Compare the objects found in the grotto of Polledrara near
Vulci, engraved in Micali, Momiui. Ined. Firenze, 1844. Taw.
iv.—viii. and now in the British Museum. The small bronze
figure, now in the Pourtales collection at Paris, and formerly
in the Museum Namanum at Venice, engraved, Mueller, Denk-
maeler d. a. Kunst, I. Taf. ix. fig. 32, which bears the inscrip-
tion IIpXuKprinjc aviOriKS, may also be considered as somewhat
Egyptian in character, or, to use the expression of Diodorus, i.
98,—wcipe^Kpepec -o7<; AlyvTrrioic. The genuineness of this work
has been doubted by Clarac, but admitted by Panofka and
others. There is a curious description in Cedrenus (Histor. Comp.