CHAPTER VI.

EGYPTIAN ART.

The sphinx the emblem of Egyptian art--Long and short chronologists--Lepsius and his list of Egyptian dynasties-- State of Egypt under Menes, who ruled 3892 B.C., according to Lepsius--Division of Egyptian art into periods--The forty-two holy books of the Egyptians--Their gods of the first, second, and third orders--The Egyptian trinity--The pyramidal period--The hieratic style--The Ptolemaic style --Their mode of ornamentation and symmetrophobia 103