The arts and crafts of ancient Egypt . 43. Ramessu II45. Merenptah 44. Bak-en-khonsu46. Taharqa THE STATUARY inheriting and imitating his fathers face and atti-tude. The style is cold and formal; the eyes areso forward as to be even beyond the plane of theforehead, and scarcely capped by the brow. Butthe nose and lips are natural and free of the forcingwhich is seen rather earlier. There is no attemptat any delicacy of facial curves, and the chin andthroat are masked by the official beard. As this isin gray granite, and was executed as the ka statueof the kings personal temple, it may be taken
The arts and crafts of ancient Egypt . 43. Ramessu II45. Merenptah 44. Bak-en-khonsu46. Taharqa THE STATUARY inheriting and imitating his fathers face and atti-tude. The style is cold and formal; the eyes areso forward as to be even beyond the plane of theforehead, and scarcely capped by the brow. Butthe nose and lips are natural and free of the forcingwhich is seen rather earlier. There is no attemptat any delicacy of facial curves, and the chin andthroat are masked by the official beard. As this isin gray granite, and was executed as the ka statueof the kings personal temple, it may be taken asthe best that could be done at that time. A different feeling comes in with the massiveindividual portrait of Taharqa (fig. 46). The facialmuscles arestrongly marked, but the mouth is singu-larly unformed, and is exactly the opposite of thatin the strong type of fig. 34. The eyes are of thegibbous form, with a long slot of lachrymal fossa,which is also shown in the kindred figure of QueenAmenardys (fig. 47). The style is not akin t
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