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A History of Art in Ancient Egypt, Vol. 1 (of 2)

Note 218 — Chapter III · (continued 2)

Walter Armstrong translation

Σύναρμον δὲ καὶ κατεξεσμένον τὸ πᾶν ἔργον, ὥστε δοκεῖν ὅλου τοῦ κατασκευάσματος μίαν εἶναι πέτρας συμφυίαν, p. 2,259, A. So, too, the elder Pliny, though with rather less precision: "Est autem saxo naturali elaborata et lubrica" (Nat. Hist. xxxvi. 12).

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