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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.4670#0077
NATURAL DECORATION
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in the XVIIIth-XIXth dynasties we find
a different treatment
on the throne of Ra-
messu III., in which
it is kept more as
a parallel pattern.
This parallelism be-
came general in later 130.—p. 115.
times, and the Ptolemaic walls are ruled
over with stiff friezes of lotus and bud.
These wall basements are f>
preceded by groups of flower
and bud in scenes, which are
of the same style,
as early as the
IVth dynasty, on
the tomb of Debu-
hen. Here it may be the
papyrus; but in the Vth
dynasty, on a basket-work
screen, the lotus and bud is clearly shown.
67
in the XVIIIth-XIXth dynasties we find
a different treatment
on the throne of Ra-
messu III., in which
it is kept more as
a parallel pattern.
This parallelism be-
came general in later 130.—p. 115.
times, and the Ptolemaic walls are ruled
over with stiff friezes of lotus and bud.
These wall basements are f>
preceded by groups of flower
and bud in scenes, which are
of the same style,
as early as the
IVth dynasty, on
the tomb of Debu-
hen. Here it may be the
papyrus; but in the Vth
dynasty, on a basket-work
screen, the lotus and bud is clearly shown.