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Excerpt from Specimens of Antient Sculpture, Aegyptian, Etruscan, Greek, and Roman, Vol. 2: Selected From Different Collections in Great Britain by the Society of Dilettanti
Egyptian art. In a great degree, as -well as to appreciate the superior merit of the more antient Egyptian relics. Beside the statues we possess from the Memnonium, one of which is engraved in our first plate from the original in the British Museum, we lay before the reader, in the next engraving, one of the two colossal Lions of red granite brought by Lord Prudhoe from the interior of Nubia, bearing on it the name in hieroglyphic characters of amenoph the third, the Ethiopian sovereign, who was called Memnon by the Greek historians. Our remarks upon these interest ing monuments will be found in their place, but their style and execution are so important both to the corroboration of the Grecian records, as to the progress of civilization from Ethiopia to Egypt, and also to the history of Sculpture, as an early art, that we may be allowed to advert to the following facts gathered from Lord Prudhoe's journal.
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