PREFACE

PERIODS AND KINGS REFERRED TO IN THIS VOLUME

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

CHAPTER I THE CHARACTER OF EGYPTIAN ART

CHAPTER II THE PERIODS AND SCHOOLS

CHAPTER III THE STATUARY

CHAPTER IV THE RELIEFS

CHAPTER V THE PAINTING AND DRAWING

CHAPTER VI THE ARCHITECTURE

CHAPTER VII THE STONE-WORKING

CHAPTER VIII JEWELLERY

CHAPTER IX METAL WORK

CHAPTER X GLAZED WARE

CHAPTER XI THE POTTERY

CHAPTER XII IVORY-WORKING

CHAPTER XIII WOODWORK

CHAPTER XIV PLASTER AND STUCCO

CHAPTER XV CLOTHING

CHAPTER XVI EGYPT'S PLACE IN THE ART OF THE WORLD

INDEX

PUBLICATIONS ON SUBJECTS OF THIS VOLUME

The Arts and Crafts of the Nations

General Editor: S. H. F. CAPENNY

THE ARTS AND CRAFTS
OF ANCIENT EGYPT

THE
ARTS & CRAFTS
OF ANCIENT EGYPT

BY
W. M. FLINDERS PETRIE
D.C.L., F.R.S., F.B.A., ETC., PROFESSOR OF
EGYPTOLOGY IN LONDON UNIVERSITY;
AUTHOR OF “A HISTORY OF EGYPT,” ETC.

CONTAINING
ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY ILLUSTRATIONS

SECOND EDITION
WITH ADDITIONAL CHAPTER

T. N. FOULIS
LONDON & EDINBURGH
1910

First Edition, November 1909
Second Edition, October 1910

PRINTED BY NEILL AND CO., LTD., EDINBURGH