Text Appearing Before Image: BUILDINGS OF THE TWO NECTANEBOS 315 himself, escape their zeal, for the few Europeans who havevisited them in modern times have observed theircartouches there. Moreover, in spite of the brief space of Text Appearing After Image: GREAT GATE OF NECTAJIEBO AT KAENAK. time within which they were carried out, the majority ofthese works betray no signs of haste or slipshod execution ; 1 Drawn by Boudier, from a photograph by Beato. 31fi THE LAST DAYS OF THE OLD EASTERN WORLD the craftsmen employed on them seem to have preservedin their full integrity all the artistic traditions of earliertimes, and were capable of producing masterpieces whichwill bear comparison with those of the golden age. TheEastern gate, erected at Karnak in the time of NectaneboII., is in no way inferior either in purity of proportion or in the beauty of its carv-ings to what remains ofthe gates of AmenothesIII. The sarcophagus ofNectanebo I. is carvedand decorated with aperfection of skill whichbad never been surpassedin any age, and else-where, on all the monu-ments which bear the FRAGMENT OF A NAOS OF THE TIME OF NECTANEBO HSiTHQ Of thlS mOUarChII. IN THE BOLOGNA MUSEUM. i i • the hieroglyphics havebeen designed and carved with as much ca
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