[294] Lepsius, Denkmæler, part ii. pl. 47 and 61.
[295] Wilkinson, Manners and Customs, etc., vol. ii. p. 88.
[296] M. Émile Soldi (La Sculpture Égyptienne) tells us that during the reign of Napoleon III. such representations of the Emperor as were not taken from the portrait by Winterhalter were forbidden to be recognized officially.
[297] Maspero, Histoire Ancienne, p. 272.
[298] Émile Soldi, La Sculpture Égyptienne, 1 vol. 8vo, 1876, copiously illustrated. (Ernest Leroux.)
[299] See the note of M. Chabas, "Sur le nom du fer chez les Anciens Égyptiens." (Comptes Rendus de L'Académie des Inscriptions, January 23, 1874.)
[300] Certain alloys, however, have recently been discovered which give a hardness far above that of ordinary bronze. The metal of the Uchatius gun, which has been adopted by Austria, is mixed, for instance, with a certain quantity of phosphorus.
[301] Soldi, Les Arts Méconnus, p. 492. (1 vol. 8vo, Leroux, 1881.)
[302] It has escaped M. Perrot's notice that one is left-handed.—Ed.
[303] Upon the different kinds of chisels used by the Egyptian sculptors, see Soldi, La Sculpture Égyptienne, pp. 53 and 111. He includes the toothed chisel and the gouge.