The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c12.41
The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c12.41
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II. — The Coptic Virgin of Saqqara is reproduced from the water-colour copy by Mrs. QUIBBELL, published in J. E. QUIBBELL, *Excavations at Saqqara*, II, 1908, pl. XL. In the attitude of the child Jesus, holding his mother's fore-arm with his two hands, we must recognize a curious artistic survival; for it is exactly the same as that of Horus nursed by Isis. (Cf. p. 278.)