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: Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt by Maspero G Gaston Edwards Amelia B Translator - Egypt Antiquities; Art Egypt Archaeology; Children's History; Egypt

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ARCHITECTURE--CIVIL AND MILITARY.

? 1. HOUSES:--Bricks and Brickmaking--Foundations--Materials--Towns-- Plans--Decoration

? 2. FORTRESSES:--Walls--Plans--Migdols, etc.

? 3. PUBLIC WORKS:--Roads--Bridges--Storehouses--Canals--Lake Moeris-- Dams--Reservoirs--Quarries

RELIGIOUS ARCHITECTURE.

? 1. MATERIALS; PRINCIPLES OF CONSTRUCTION:--Materials of Temples-- Foundations of Temples--Sizes of Blocks--Mortars--Mode of hoisting Blocks--Defective Masonry--Walls--Pavements--Vaultings--Supports-- Pillars and Columns--Capitals--Campaniform Capitals--Lotus-bud Capitals--Hathor-headed Capitals

? 2. TEMPLES:--Temples of the Sphinx--Temples of Elephantine--Temple at El Kab--Temple of Khons?--Arrangement of Temples--Levels--Crypts-- Temple of Karnak--Temple of Luxor--Philae--The Speos, or Rock-cut Temple--Speos of Horemheb--Rock-cut Temples of Ab? Simbel--Temple of Deir el Bahar?--Temple of Abydos--Sphinxes--Crio-sphinxes

? 3. DECORATION:--Principles of Decoration--The Temple a Symbolic Representation of the World--Decoration of Parts nearest the Ground-- Dadoes--Bases of Columns--Decoration of Ceilings--Decoration of Architraves--Decoration of Wall-surfaces--Magic Virtues of Decoration --Decoration of Pylons--Statues--Obelisks--Libation-tables--Altars-- Shrines--Sacred Boats--Moving Statues of Deities

TOMBS.

? 2. PYRAMIDS:--Plan of the Pyramid comprises three leading features of the Mastaba--Materials of Pyramids--Orientation--Pyramid of Kh?f?-- Pyramids of Khafra and Menkara--Step Pyramid of Sakkarah--Pyramid of ?nas--Decoration of Pyramid of ?nas--Group of Dash?r--Pyramid of Medum

PAINTING AND SCULPTURE.

? 2. TECHNICAL PROCESSES:--The Preparation of Surfaces--Outline-- Sculptors' Tools--Iron and Bronze Tools--Impurity of Iron--Methods of Instruction in Sculpture--Models--Methods of cutting Various Stones-- Polish--Painted Sculptures--Pigments--Conventional Scale of Colour-- Relation of Painting to Sculpture in Ancient Egypt

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