[234] Ch. Blanc, Voyage dans la Haute-Égypte, p. 265.
[235] Antiquités, vol. ii. p. 110.
[236] Maspero, Études sur quelques Peintures Funéraires. Mariette, in describing this bas-relief (Notice du Musée, No. 903), observes that these funeral dances are still in vogue in most of the villages of Upper Egypt. The bas-reliefs from Sakkarah could not, however, as he says, render the piercing shrieks with which these dances are accompanied.
[237] Prisse, Histoire de l'Art Égyptien. Text, p. 418. This bas-relief has also been reproduced by Mariette, Monuments Divers, pl. 68.
[238] Some of our illustrations allow the justice of this observation to be easily verified (Figs. [172], [253], and [254], Vol. I.). In one of these the porters and in another the prisoners of war seem to be multiplied by some mechanical process. A glance through the Denkmæler of Lepsius leaves a similar impression. We may mention especially plates 34, 35, 175, 125, and 135 of the third Part.
[239] So, at Dayr-el-Bahari the decorator has taken pains to give accurate reproductions of the fauna and flora of Punt. See the plates of Mariette (Dayr-el-Bahari) and the remarks of Prof. Ebers (Ægypten, vol. ii. p. 280).
[240] Ch. Blanc, Voyage dans la Haute-Égypte, p. 74, pl. 31.
[241] Mariette, Voyage dans la Haute-Égypte, vol. i. p. 72. Plates 23 and 24.
[242] Champollion makes the same remark (Lettres d'Égypte et de Nubie, p. 326).
[243] Ch. Blanc, Voyage dans la Haute-Égypte, p. 178.