Egyptian sculpture

156 EGYPTIAN SCULPTURE

I suggest that it may be of the XXIInd dynasty. The face is merely roughed out, but the eyes do not protrude beyond the brow, as in the Late Period. The hollow beneath the brow and the line of the eyelid are cut with harsh outlines: the mouth is little more than a slit. The whole effect is of an unfinished piece of work, probably unfinished because of want of skill on the part of the sculptor. The squareness of the modelling of the body and the sharp edges of the representation of the muscular development again suggest that it is unfinished. The memes head-dress has unequal stripes both on the head and on the lappets. The uraeus is extremely large, in proportion to the face of the king.

The statue of Takushet (PI. XLII. 4) is of bronze, and is of great interest as showing the type of work in the XXIst dynasty; the style is better than is often found in the stone statues of this period. The figure shows a woman well developed, rather inclined to embonpoznt, in the conventional attitude of one foot advanced, and with the left arm laid across the breast in a position reminiscent of Nefert. The face is round and full, the eyes have been inlaid, and the loss of them takes the eye to its proper position under the brow; had the inlay remained, the eye would have had the staring effect of the period. The eyebrows have also been inlaid and the inlay is lost. The full mouth, the straight, though rather wide, nose, and the full round chin and cheeks

suggest that this is certainly a likeness. The extremely conventional method of representing

|| the hair makes it impossible to say whether

the hair-dressing represents a wig or the short-

curled hair of the negress; the name of the lady suggests that the latter is the correct interpretation. The garment which she wears is the long narrow dress common to all periods of Egyptian history, but in this case it is covered