Page:A History of Art in Ancient Egypt Vol 2.djvu/275

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Sculpture under the Second Theban Empire. ^45 may be given as an instance. The subject of these reHefs is the expedition undertaken by the regent Hatasu against the country of Punt.i '* In the most curious of these sculptures the savage chief advances as a suppliant. His wife walks behind him. Her hair

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Fig. 2i6. — Statuette of Amenophis IV. Height twenty inches. Louvre. Drawn by Saint-Elme Gautier. is carefully dressed and plaited into a thick tail at the back ; a necklace of larore discs is round her neck. Her dress is a Iouq- yellow chemise, without sleeves, and reaching to the middle of her legs. Her features are regular enough, but virile rather than Mariette, Notire du ^fusee, Xo. 902. and Dayr-d-Bahari. plates.