Egyptian sculpture

164 EGYPTIAN SCULPTURE

dynasty, where the figures are always represented as being quite detached from one another.

The statuette of a queen (Pl. XLIII. 2) shows again the characteristics of the Late Period. It is not unlike the statue of Amenardus, in type, but has not the same feeling of artistic expression as that of the XX Vth dynasty. The face is without any modelling, the lips are full but expressionless, the eyes are too far forward under the brow, and there is no representation whatsoever of the facial muscles. The ears are gigantic, and the ear-studs are in proportion. This should be compared with the ear of the Amenardus statue. The figure itself is represented as wearing the long garment of the women with a sash round the waist, the knots falling down in front of the ankles. The lines of the sash emphasise the protuberant abdomen with the enormously enlarged navel. The arms are without any modelling. The head-dress is a long wig round which there is a fillet; the crown is circular, and from it rise the two horns of Isis enclosing the disk, surmounted by two feathers. On the brow are two uraei; the ornaments are a necklace and bracelets on the upper arm and wrist. The lady holds one arm across the body, and grasps a flail. The polish on the stone as well as the style shows that this is a figure of the XXVIth dynasty or even later.

The bronze figure of a priest holding the statue of Osiris (Pl. XLVI. 1) is one of the best pieces of artistic work of the Late Period. The head is certainly a portrait; the man is represented as being shaven, the eyes are well set under the brow, the nose and mouth are obviously copied from nature, and the facial muscles are so represented as to indicate a man of considerable age. The modelling of the figure is not so good as that of the face; only the shoulders and arms can be seen, for the garment