[18] For complete translation of the contract see the Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archæology, vol. vii., pp. 1–9.
[19] The Skhemka group was catalogued for the first time by E. de Rougé, “Notice sommaire des Monuments égyptiens,” 1855, pp. 50–51, under the number S. 102. The other two statues of the same person possessed by the Museum are both entered under the number S.103. One is in granite, the other in painted limestone.
[20] There are exceptions only in the middle of the XVIIIth Dynasty, when men and women, and especially women, are painted light pink or flesh colour.
[21] The pretty painted bas-relief of the tomb of Seti I in the Louvre (E. de Rougé, “Notice des principaux monuments,” p. 35, B. 7) shows in large the arrangement of the glass beads on the stuff.
[22] Cf., e.g., Lepsius, “Denkmäler,” ii., 47b, 74e, where the woman crouching in front of her husband puts her arm round his leg.
[23] Here are some references to plates in Lepsius where the husband and wife are represented side by side in different positions. The woman of low stature crouches behind her seated husband (“Denkmäler,” ii., 71b); the wife and husband, both of heroic stature, are seated on the same armchair, and the wife puts her right arm round her husband’s neck (“Denkmäler,” ii., 10b, 24, 25b, 41b, 42a-b, 75a, etc.); the wife of low stature stands in front of her husband, who is of heroic stature (“Denkmäler,” ii., 38b); she stands behind him and puts her arm round his left arm (“Denkmäler,” ii., 27, 33a), or she puts her arm round his waist (“Denkmäler,” ii., 38a); and lastly, the husband and wife, of the same stature, are standing, the wife behind her husband and putting her arm round his neck (“Denkmäler,” ii., 13, 20–1, 29b, 32, 34b, 40b, 43b, 46, 58a, 59b), or separated from him (“Denkmäler,” ii., 73, etc.).
[24] Thus in Lepsius (“Denkmäler,” ii., 74e), where the noble Senotmhît, surnamed Mihi, is seated, of heroic stature, while his wife, Khontkaous, is represented crouching and of low stature, although she is a legitimate daughter of the king. In another part of the tomb (Lepsius, “Denkmäler,” ii., 73) the same persons are represented standing side by side and of heroic stature, while their children are of ordinary stature.
[25] See the preceding chapter, [pp. 55–59].
[26] See Chapter III, [p. 51].
[27] We know now (1912) that the figures described by Mariette as mourners are cooks, who held the spit in one hand and with the other protected their faces from the heat of the brazier where the chickens were roasting.