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Identifier: artscraftsofanci1910petr (find matches)
Title: The arts and crafts of ancient Egypt
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Petrie, W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders), Sir, 1853-1942
Subjects: Industrial arts Art, Egyptian Industries
Publisher: London, Edinburgh : T. N. Foulis
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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me, when dozens may be found on one body. Thegreat variety of forms and materials would requirea volume to explain them. Beads were used from prehistoric times. The hardstones were cut then—quartz, amethyst, agate, car-nelian, turquoise, lazuli, haematite, serpentine, aswell as glazes on quartz and on paste. Glazedpottery beads became the more usual in historictimes; glass beads were made from the XVIIIthdynasty onward, and hardly any other material wasused in Roman times. There are hundreds of va-rieties known, and an accurate knowledge of theirdates is essential in excavating. Flint was worked to the highest perfection in theprehistoric age, and continued in use till Romantimes. Strictly, it is chert rather than flint, as thebeds in which it is found are of Eocene limestone.But in general appearance and nature they areclosely the equivalent of the chalk with flints inEngland, only harder. The prehistoric forms areshown in fig. 92. They exceed the flint-work of all 80 FLINT-WORKING
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Knives and lances of the best prehistoric work THE STONE-WORKING other countries in the regularity of the flaking, thethinness of the weapon, and the minute serrationof the edges. At present such work is entirely alost art, and we cannot imagine the methods or theskill required to produce such results. Besides theweapons, flint armlets were made, chipped out ofa solid block, yet no thicker than a straw. Thesewere ground with emery finally to smooth them forwearing. Flint was commonly used down to theXI Ith dynasty for knives, but all the dynastic work-ing is far inferior to the earlier. In the XVII Ithdynasty, and later, sickle teeth were still made offlint; and flakes were chipped and used in abund-ance at some centres in the Roman period. Before leaving the stone-working we may notethe accuracy of work, as this is better seen here thanin any other subject. The highest pitch of accuracyon a large scale was reached under Khufu in theI Vth dynasty; his pyramid had an error of Idss than

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