[28] In examining the eye of the Cheîkh-el-Beled closely, I found that there was no silver nail in it, but that the luminous spangle was produced by a scrap of polished ebony placed under the crystal; it should be the same with the eyes of the Crouching Scribe.
[29] Cf. [pp. 55–59].
[30] This article was published in two slightly different forms in the Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 3rd period, 1893, vol. ix., pp. 265–70, and in the Monuments Piot, 1894, vol. i., pp. 1–6: I have combined them for this volume.
[31] The statue is described in the “Visitor’s Guide to the Cairo Museum,” 2nd edition, 1912, p. 58, No. 142.
[32] Maspero, “Visitor’s Guide,” 2nd edition, 1912, pp. 57–8, No. 141.
[34] Cf. what has already been said regarding statues of private individuals erected by the favour of the Pharaoh, [p. 40].
[35] Maspero, “Visitor’s Guide to the Boulaq Museum,” p. 28, and now “Visitor’s Guide to the Cairo Museum,” 2nd edition, 1912, p. 73, No. 227.
[36] The expression is borrowed from a letter of the Papyrus Anastasis, No. 3. Its position in the Egyptian context leads me to believe that it was an often-quoted proverb. The idea is repeated in different forms in the scribes’ correspondence: “Work, or you will be beaten.” “When the scribe reaches the age of manhood, his back is broken by the blows he has received.”
[37] Mariette, “Notice des principaux monuments du Musée de Boulaq,” 6th edition, 1876, p. 235, No. 769: “Memphis. Saqqarah—limestone II, 1 foot 2 inches—kneeling figure. His hands crossed on his legs. His eyes are of mosaic work and formed of several stones curiously combined.” The statue of the kneeling scribe figures in a group in Plate XX of Mariette’s work, “Album du Musée de Boulaq,” containing 40 plates, photographed by MM. Délié and Béchard, with explanatory text edited by Auguste Mariette-Bey. Cairo, Mourès et Cie, 1871, fol.