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Ancient Egyptian decoration, (1898). Examples of architecture and painting from Ancient Egypt: 'Fig 1: Painted relief-figure from a column of the temple at Denderah. Figs 2 and 3: Paintings from mummy-cases. Figs 4 and 5: From a mummy-case in the Louvre, Paris. Fig 6: Painted border from a sarcophagus. Fig 7: Border from a mummy-case. British Museum, London. Fig 8: Ornament on wooden sarcophagus. London. Fig 9: Border on a mummy-case. British Museum. Fig 10: Portion of a collar. London. Fig 11: Painting on a sarcophagus. London'. Plate 1 from "The Historic Styles of Ornament" translated from the German of H. Dolmetsch. [B.T. Batford, London, 1898] (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/The Print Collector)