[][39]] Mr. Loftie's collection contains, however, an interesting piece of trial-work consisting of the head of a Ptolemaic queen in red granite.--A.B.E.
[][40]] For pigments used at the beginning of the Fourth Dynasty, see Petrie's Medum.
[][41]] The rose- coloured, or rather crimson, flesh-tints are also to be seen at El Kab, and in the famous speos at Beit el Wally, both tempo Nineteenth Dynasty.--A.B.E.
[][42]] The classic Syene, from all time the southernmost portion of Egypt proper. The Sixth Dynasty is called the Elephantine, from the island immediately facing Syene which was the traditional seat of the Dynasty, and on which the temples stood. The tombs of Elephantine were discovered by General Sir F. Grenfell, K.C.B., in 1885, in the neighbouring cliffs of the Libyan Desert: see foot- note p. 149.--A.B.E.
[][43]] For an explanation of the nature of the Double, see Chapter III., pp. 111-112, 121 et seq.
[][44]] Known as the "Scribe accroupi," literally the "Squatting Scribe"; but in English, squatting, as applied to Egyptian art, is taken to mean the attitude of sitting with the knees nearly touching the chin. --A.B.E.
[][45]] "The Sheikh of the Village." This statue was best known in England as the "Wooden Man of Bûlak."--A.B.E.
[][47]] I venture to think that the heads of Rahotep and Nefert, engraved from a brilliant photograph in A Thousand Miles up the Nile, give a truer and more spirited idea of the originals than the present illustrations,--A.B.E.
[][48]] That is, the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Dynasties. --A.B.E.