. Discovery. Science. 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 keeper,
. Discovery. Science. 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 keeper, but also their priest. 2 Particularly in certain fishing and fowling Fig. -.—THIN-WAISTED YOUN'G MEN CARRYING OFFERINGS. The affectation and mannerisms in question are very conspicuous in the pair of young men, unhappily much defaced, shown in the adjacent cut (Fig. y). They wear finikin bead necklaces quite unlike the ordinary Egyptian man's broad bead-collar, and, what is a most unusual feature, each has a long pigtail, with a curl at the end, hanging from the back of his head. They are painted pale yellow like the women, not the whole- some reddish brown of the ordinarv' Egyptian man ; and, be it observed, all the men in these particular frescoes, farm-hands, fishermen, and agricultural labourers, are given this same effeminate colouring. In addition they all present the same physical pecu- liarities that are noticeable in the accompanying illustration—full developed breasts, thin waists, and rather broad hips. There is but one exception to this rule, the owner of the tomb-chapel himself, who is rather a burly fellow of the nonnal Egyptian build and witli the ordinary dark complexion. Is it a mere coincidence that all the chief monuments testifying to another and much later naturalistic movement in Egyptian art, a movement characterised by its disregard for accepted traditions, and by its unconventionalism, are to be found in this neighbour- hood, namely, at
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