Egyptian sculpture

METHODS OF THE ARTIST 27

of Diodorus, regarding the Egyptian canon, that the Egyptian artists divided the whole structure of the body into twenty-one and a quarter parts. P. ai. fig. 4 shows this method, and also shows that the vertical line passes well to the back of the ear, through the middle of the body, the knee of the back leg, and through the ball of the back foot. The carriage of the figure therefore differs considerably

from the earlier, though it must be noted that the proportionate width from hand to hand is practically the same.

Fora seated figure the proportions arethe same (p. 21. fig. 3) ; the height is fourteen squares, ie. 7 units, the difference being made up by the length of the horizontal part of the leg from the knee to the belt, which is four squares, i.e. 2 units.

For the faces, the base of the nose is exactly in the middle between the hair and the shoulder.

Figures in the round follow the same canon as the reliefs