[332] Description, Ant. vol. iii. p. 44.
[333] Mérimée, Dissertation sur l'Emploi des Couleurs, p. 130.
[334] Mérimée, Dissertation, etc. Champollion uses the term gouache, body colour, in speaking of these paintings, but as the characteristic of that process is that every tint is mixed with white, there is some inaccuracy in doing so.
[335] Prisse, Histoire de l'Art Égyptien, text, p. 291.
[336] Prisse, Histoire, etc. text, p. 291.
[337] Wilkinson, Manners and Customs, etc. vol. ii. p. 294.
[338] Herodotus, ii. 182.
[339] There are other exceptions to the ordinary rule. In a fine bas-relief in the Louvre, representing Seti I. before Hathor, the carnations of the goddess are similar to those of the Pharaoh; they are in each case dark red (basement room, B, 7).
[340] Champollion, Monuments de l'Égypte et de la Nubie, pl. 11. Blue was the regular colour for Amen when represented with a complete human form; when he was ram-headed he was generally painted green (see Champollion, Panthéon Égyptien, No. 1; Pierret, Dictionnaire Archéologique; and pl. 2, vol. i. of the present work).—Ed.
[341] Ibid. pl. 59.