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Within the New Kingdom period, about 1400 B.C, the funeral papyri “Book
of the dead” became widely spread around the whole country and also it
became affordable to others than royals. The popularity and the spread for that
type of papyrus books had synchronized with a simplicity trend for the
accompanying art of those papyri. The use of the classical drawings in book of
the dead, in ancient Egypt, did require a highly skilled artist as well as much
of time which had a negative effect on papyrus cost while the use of the
simplified art on papyrus which requires less skilled artist and takes less
time to finish was a help to allow major number of people to get it. The
Egyptian artist used the stroke-order style or the simplified for the repeated
and exact god’s figures which used to be made in classical style before. The
two figures above show the simplified style for a man and woman and the possible
strokes led to have them drawn. Written and painted by Yasser Kamel for Museumegypt.2006. All
rights reserved.
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