The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . rfabel in JEgyplen, inthe Sitzungsberichfe of the Academy of Sciences at Munich, 1868, vol. ii. pp. 45-49; his views havenot received the attention they deserve. The caricatures are preserved in two papyri, one in the BritishMuseum, the other at Turin, which were published by Lepsius, .4msii(i7</ der icichtigsten Urltunden,pi. xxiii.; and on ostraca, of which one only, that in the former Abbott collection, and now at NewYork, was published by Pbisse dAvennes, Notice sur le Miisee du Caire (Estrait de )a Revue Archeol.,1846), p. 17, a
The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . rfabel in JEgyplen, inthe Sitzungsberichfe of the Academy of Sciences at Munich, 1868, vol. ii. pp. 45-49; his views havenot received the attention they deserve. The caricatures are preserved in two papyri, one in the BritishMuseum, the other at Turin, which were published by Lepsius, .4msii(i7</ der icichtigsten Urltunden,pi. xxiii.; and on ostraca, of which one only, that in the former Abbott collection, and now at NewYork, was published by Pbisse dAvennes, Notice sur le Miisee du Caire (Estrait de )a Revue Archeol.,1846), p. 17, and by MAtPEKO, LArch^ologie JEgyptitnne, pp. 1G4, 165. They have been studied byDeveria in CH-ViirFLEURY, Eist. de la Caricature Antique, 2ud edit., pp. 20-28, and by Ollivier-Beauregard, La Caricature Egyptieune, historique, politique et morale, 1894, in which the interpre-tation is more ingenious than true to the meaning of the documents. - Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from Lepsius, Auswahl der wichtiijsten Urhunden, pi. xxiii. CARICATURES AND SATIRES. JOI. THE CAT BEFORE ITS JULGE. recall the daily scenesat the judgment-seat ofthe lord of Tiiebes. Inanother place we see adonkey, a lion, a croco-dile, and a monkeygiving an instrumentaland vocal concert. Alion and a gazelle playa frame of chess. A catof fashion, with a flowerin her hair, has a dis-agreement with a goose:they have come to blows, and the excitable puss, who fears she will comeoff worst in the struggle, falls backwards in a fright. The draughtsmen havingonce found vent for their satire, stopped at nothing, and even royalty itself did not escape their at-tacks. While the writersof the day made fun ofthe military calling, bothin prose and verse,^ thecaricaturists parodiedthe combats and trium-phal scenes of the Ramsesor Thutmosis of the daydepicted on the walls ofthe pylons. The Pharaohof all the rats, perchedupon a cliariot drawn bydogs, bravely charges anarmy of cats; standing in the heroic attitude of a conqueror, he
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