. Discovery. Science. DISCOVERY 39 keeper of the pharaonic' diadems, indicate that he was more closely associated with, and perhaps more subservient to, the king than the previous Cusite barons of this period. The style of the reliefs in his tomb-chapel certainly suggests the influence of the court; indeed it is quite possible that they are actually the work of court artists. The next and latest of the decorated Middle King- dom tomb-chapels at Meir, that of yet a fourth Ukhhotpe—son of Ukhhotpe and Heni the Middle— probably dates from the reign of Amenemmes II's successor, Sesostris II, under
. Discovery. Science. DISCOVERY 39 keeper of the pharaonic' diadems, indicate that he was more closely associated with, and perhaps more subservient to, the king than the previous Cusite barons of this period. The style of the reliefs in his tomb-chapel certainly suggests the influence of the court; indeed it is quite possible that they are actually the work of court artists. The next and latest of the decorated Middle King- dom tomb-chapels at Meir, that of yet a fourth Ukhhotpe—son of Ukhhotpe and Heni the Middle— probably dates from the reign of Amenemmes II's successor, Sesostris II, under whom the power and magnificence of the feudal barons reached their culminating point. The influence of the court, so noticeable in the tomb-chapel of his predecessor, is con- spicuously wanting in that of Ukhhotpe IV. Everywhere are indications that local artists were employed, but artists whose style is completely different from that of the men who worked for the earlier Twelfth Dynasty barons of Cusae. In the first place, coloured reliefs have been replaced by piintings in tempera. Secondly, instead of the naturalism and at the same time sim- plicity of jhe older Cusite art, we are confronted with a fiamboyancy ~ combined with a display of affectation and mannerisms hitherto unknown in Egyptian art decadent, frescoes, which well reflect the luxury and fastidious tastes of the governing classes of that Pig. (j.—\ MODERN' BISHARI .ASWAN. {Pliotograph of a painting by F. F. Ogilvic in the possession of the author.) of any period. " Precious " is the adjective that best describes these certainly very attractive, if somewhat 1 The royal diadems, the White Crown of Upper, and the Red Crown of Lower, Egypt, were very sacred objects. Indeed, they were regarded as divinities, the embodiments of Nekhbet and Uto, who were the tutelary goddesses of Upper and Lower Egypt respectively. Hence he to whose custody these crowns were committed was not merely their
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