Egyptian sculpture

PREFACE ix

the imitative but technically skilful art of the XXVIth dynasty, which was contemporary with the rise of art in Greece, and influenced it in many ways. The later history is mainly of decline, partly owing to an incongruous reaction of Greece upon Egypt. The story is a long one, but its unity and its diversity give it a unique position among the studies of human activity.

ERNEST A. GARDNER.

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE. June, 1929.