{"product_id":"2940013787926","title":"MANUAL OF EGYPTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY","description":"CONTENTS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eARCHITECTURE--CIVIL AND MILITARY.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    § 1. HOUSES:--Bricks and Brickmaking--Foundations--Materials--Towns--\u003cbr\u003e    Plans--Decoration\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    § 2. FORTRESSES:--Walls--Plans--Migdols, etc.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    § 3. PUBLIC WORKS:--Roads--Bridges--Storehouses--Canals--Lake Moeris--\u003cbr\u003e    Dams--Reservoirs--Quarries\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER II.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRELIGIOUS ARCHITECTURE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    § 1. MATERIALS; PRINCIPLES OF CONSTRUCTION:--Materials of Temples--\u003cbr\u003e    Foundations of Temples--Sizes of Blocks--Mortars--Mode of hoisting\u003cbr\u003e    Blocks--Defective Masonry--Walls--Pavements--Vaultings--Supports--\u003cbr\u003e    Pillars and Columns--Capitals--Campaniform Capitals--Lotus-bud\u003cbr\u003e    Capitals--Hathor-headed Capitals\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    § 2. TEMPLES:--Temples of the Sphinx--Temples of Elephantine--Temple\u003cbr\u003e    at El Kab--Temple of Khonsû--Arrangement of Temples--Levels--Crypts--\u003cbr\u003e    Temple of Karnak--Temple of Luxor--Philae--The Speos, or Rock-cut\u003cbr\u003e    Temple--Speos of Horemheb--Rock-cut Temples of Abû Simbel--Temple of\u003cbr\u003e    Deir el Baharî--Temple of Abydos--Sphinxes--Crio-sphinxes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    § 3. DECORATION:--Principles of Decoration--The Temple a Symbolic\u003cbr\u003e    Representation of the World--Decoration of Parts nearest the Ground--\u003cbr\u003e    Dadoes--Bases of Columns--Decoration of Ceilings--Decoration of\u003cbr\u003e    Architraves--Decoration of Wall-surfaces--Magic Virtues of Decoration\u003cbr\u003e    --Decoration of Pylons--Statues--Obelisks--Libation-tables--Altars--\u003cbr\u003e    Shrines--Sacred Boats--Moving Statues of Deities\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER III.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTOMBS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    § 1. MASTABAS:--Construction of the Mastaba--The Door of the Living,\u003cbr\u003e    and the Door of the Dead--The Chapel--Wall Decorations--The Double and\u003cbr\u003e    his Needs--The _Serdab_--Ka Statues--The Sepulchral Chamber\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    § 2. PYRAMIDS:--Plan of the Pyramid comprises three leading features\u003cbr\u003e    of the Mastaba--Materials of Pyramids--Orientation--Pyramid of Khûfû--\u003cbr\u003e    Pyramids of Khafra and Menkara--Step Pyramid of Sakkarah--Pyramid of\u003cbr\u003e    Ûnas--Decoration of Pyramid of Ûnas--Group of Dashûr--Pyramid of Medum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    § 3. TOMBS OF THE THEBAN EMPIRE; THE ROCK-CUT TOMBS:--Pyramid-mastabas\u003cbr\u003e    of Abydos--Pyramid-mastabas of Drah Abû'l Neggah--Rock-cut Tombs of\u003cbr\u003e    Beni Hasan and Syene--Rock-cut Tombs of Siût--Wall-decoration of\u003cbr\u003e    Theban Catacombs--Tombs of the Kings of the Eighteenth Dynasty at\u003cbr\u003e    Thebes--Valley of the Tombs of the Kings--Royal Catacombs--Tomb of\u003cbr\u003e    Seti I.--Wall-decorations of Royal Catacombs--Funerary Furniture of\u003cbr\u003e    Catacombs--Ûshabtiû--Amulets--Common Graves of the Poor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER IV.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePAINTING AND SCULPTURE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    § 1. DRAWING AND COMPOSITION:--Supposed Canon of Proportion--Drawing\u003cbr\u003e    Materials--Sketches--Illustrations to the _Book of the Dead_--\u003cbr\u003e    Conventional Treatment of Animal and Human Figures--Naturalistic\u003cbr\u003e    Treatment--Composition--Grouping--Wall-paintings of Tombs--A Funerary\u003cbr\u003e    Feast--A Domestic Scene--Military Subjects--Perspective--Parallel\u003cbr\u003e    between a Wall-painting in a Tomb at Sakkarah and the Mosaic of\u003cbr\u003e    Palestrina\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    § 2. TECHNICAL PROCESSES:--The Preparation of Surfaces--Outline--\u003cbr\u003e    Sculptors' Tools--Iron and Bronze Tools--Impurity of Iron--Methods of\u003cbr\u003e    Instruction in Sculpture--Models--Methods of cutting Various Stones--\u003cbr\u003e    Polish--Painted Sculptures--Pigments--Conventional Scale of Colour--\u003cbr\u003e    Relation of Painting to Sculpture in Ancient Egypt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    § 3. SCULPTURE:--The Great Sphinx--Art of the Memphite School--Wood-\u003cbr\u003e    panels of Hesi--Funerary Statues--The Portrait-statue and the Double\u003cbr\u003e    --_Chefs d'oeuvre_ of the Memphite School--The Cross-legged\u003cbr\u003e    Scribe--Diorite Statue of Khafra--Rahotep and Nefert--The Sheikh el\u003cbr\u003e    Beled--The Kneeling Scribe--The Dwarf Nemhotep--Royal Statues of the\u003cbr\u003e    Twelfth Dynasty--Hyksos Sphinxes of Tanis--Theban School of the\u003cbr\u003e    Eighteenth Dynasty--Colossi of Amenhotep III.--New School of Tel el\u003cbr\u003e    Amarna--Its Superior Grace and Truth--Works of Horemheb--School of the\u003cbr\u003e    Nineteenth Dynasty--Colossi of Rameses II.--Decadence of Art begins\u003cbr\u003e    with Merenptah--Ethiopian Renaissance--Saïte Renaissance--The\u003cbr\u003e    Attitudes of Statues--Saïte Innovations--Greek Influence upon Egyptian\u003cbr\u003e    Art--The Ptolemaic and Roman Periods--The School of Meroë--Extinction\u003cbr\u003e    of Egyptian Art\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER V.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE INDUSTRIAL ARTS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    § 1. STONE, CLAY, AND GLASS:--Precious Stones--Lapidary Art--Beads and\u003cbr\u003e    Amulets--Scarabaei--Statuettes--Libation Tables--Perfume Vases--Kohl-\u003cbr\u003e    pots--Pottery--Clay--Glazes--Red and Painted Wares--Ûshabt","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47152729686256,"sku":"2940013787926","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013787926_p0.jpg?v=1763590245","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013787926","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}