27-06-2016, 10:20 PM
Your alternate suggestion, surviving artifacts like carvings that were recovered later, is more or less what happened when the Aratea manuscripts were made in the 9thC. They looked to surviving art from antiquity to illustrate Aratus' text.
This is a possibility, though I am thinking more of an uninterrupted line scenario. Though not until Seti's time. Like I said, when I show such early examples it's just to illustrate that they belong to a tradition and would have been part of the artists' vocabulary. I usually try to find at least one example from 300 BCE onwards, which is when we start getting a mixture between Greco-Roman and Egyptian cultures.
This is a possibility, though I am thinking more of an uninterrupted line scenario. Though not until Seti's time. Like I said, when I show such early examples it's just to illustrate that they belong to a tradition and would have been part of the artists' vocabulary. I usually try to find at least one example from 300 BCE onwards, which is when we start getting a mixture between Greco-Roman and Egyptian cultures.