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Excerpt from Catalogue of Casts: Parts I, II and III, Ancient Sculpture N 0 better example could be given of the Egyptian artist's love for animal life, and his interest in depicting it, or of his accuracy of observation, than these scenes of the herding of cattle, antelopes, asses, storks and geese; of the driving home of the cattle during the inundation, the herdsman bearing the calf on his shoulders; of loading asses and hoeing the fields. Note especially no. 7, the milking the cows with the calves tied out to tufts of halfa grass. The walls of the tomb are covered with scenes of boat-building, harvesting, hunting, etc. Among them is cut a procession of women (nos. 15 and each bear ing fruits, cakes and gifts, the products of the estates or farms of Ti. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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