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Petrie, William M. Flinders
Egyptian decorative art: a course of lectures delivered at the Royal Institution — London, 1895

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8o EGYPTIAN DECORATIVE ART

vine leaves and bunches of grapes hang-
ing from a trellis pattern which covers

it.

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At Tell el Amarna some fragments
found were very free
and natural, but in
the XXth dynasty it
became a stiff and
formal affair. (Tomb of
Aimadua, Ramessu X.).
Bunches of grapes also formed favourite
pendants; as such they



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B£ are painted in rows
hanging from architraves
of wooden buildings (tomb of Ra, Amen-
hotep II.); and frequently in blue glazed
ware bunches of grapes are
found of varying sizes, with
half of the upper part cut
Fig. 156. away so as to affix them by
a peg-hole to a square wooden beam of
the ceiling.
 
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