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Whitney Davis. Masking the blow: the scene of representation in late prehistoric Egyptian art. (California Study in the History of Art XXX. Series #14.) 316 pages, 53 illustrations. 1992. Berkeley (CA) & London: University of California Press; ISBN 0-520-07488-2 hardback $55 & £38.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Ian Shaw*
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge

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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1993

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