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 198 A History op' Art in Ancient Egypt. times has long been ascertained. The knob from the Sceptre of Papi, a Pharaoh of the sixth dynasty, which exists in the British Museum, is enough to prove this fact. M. Chabas has called our attention to the fact that bronze is mentioned in texts Fig. 178.— Wooden statue in the Louvre. Three feet eight inclies high. Drawn by Saint-Ehne Gautier. which date from a period anterior to the construction of the great Pyramids.^ " That the earliest Egyptian bronzes representing the human ^ Chabas, Si/r T Usaof des Batons de Main, p. 12. (Taohs, 8vo, 1875 )