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Manual Of Egyptian Archaeology And Guide To The Study Of Antiquities In Egypt

CHAPTER V
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The action, however, is energetic and correct, and the bird's head is adjusted with surprising skill to the man's neck and shoulders.

The same qualities and the same faults distinguish the Horus of the Posno collection (fig.

280).

Standing, he uplifted a libation vase; now lost, and poured the contents upon a king who once stood face to face with him.

This roughness of treatment is less apparent in the other three Posno figures; above all in that which bears the name of Mosu engraved over the place of the heart (fig.


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