The arts and crafts of ancient Egypt . he middle of the head, middleof the trunk, point of the backward knee, and middlebetween the heels: only, as the king is here lean-ing forward in action, the line is not vertical as itis in later standing figures. The facial charactersof the king and his foe are well distinguished ; al-together five different types of race are shown onthese early carvings. The surface of the slate hasbeen worked down with a metal scraper, shown bythe parallel grooves in the face. On reaching the beginning of the pyramid agethe finest work is seen in the three wooden panel
The arts and crafts of ancient Egypt . he middle of the head, middleof the trunk, point of the backward knee, and middlebetween the heels: only, as the king is here lean-ing forward in action, the line is not vertical as itis in later standing figures. The facial charactersof the king and his foe are well distinguished ; al-together five different types of race are shown onthese early carvings. The surface of the slate hasbeen worked down with a metal scraper, shown bythe parallel grooves in the face. On reaching the beginning of the pyramid agethe finest work is seen in the three wooden panelsof Ra-hesy (fig. ^^.frontispiece). The anatomy isfull, though not so excessive as in the earlier facial curves are carefully rendered, and themouth is excellently formed. The eye is of courseplaced in front view, as it always was by whole figure has an air of stark vigour, whichis fitting to a high official who managed a dozendifferent offices. The multitude of the mastaba tomb-chapels of 50 OLD KINGDOM RELIEFS.
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