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  • verb Present participle of Egyptianize.

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Examples

  • We knew once the two faience fragments fitted together that we had discovered an Egyptianizing, if not actual Egyptian, figurine -- Sekhmet, the goddess of war, as it turned out.

    Thirty Years at Kommos 2006

  • Peculiar finds for the Roman baths were fragments of Egyptianizing scenes and fragments of a Greek inscription, which has been identified by our epigraphy expert as belonging to a poem.

    Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Stone 2003

  • The Egyptianizing drawing on a marble veneer slab from dressing room 2

    Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Roman Baths Report 5 2003

  • Among the marble veneer, we found a nice Corinthian pilaster capital and one slab, broken into several pieces, with an incised Egyptianizing drawing.

    Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Roman Baths Report 5 2003

  • We unearthed another marble panel with an Egyptianizing scene (see Roman Baths, August 1-5) and a marble slab with a Greek inscription.

    Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Roman Baths Report 7 2003

  • Among the pieces of inscribed veneer we found several other fragments of an Egyptianizing representation of a king (?) apparently slaying an enemy with a club or ax.

    Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Roman Baths Report 6 2003

  • Among the former was Egyptianizing engraving of a standing sphinx.

    Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Roman Baths Report 8 2003

  • They may have been responsible for the small Egyptian and Egyptianizing objects which have been found by the excavators of Carchemish and Sakjegeuzi in strata of the ninth and eighth centuries; but the carrying of similar objects eastward across the Euphrates was more probably in Hittite hands than theirs.

    The Ancient East 1894

  • Egyptianizing everything had suggested the nickname of Men-Kheper-Rã.

    It Happened in Egypt 1889

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