Manual of Egyptian archæology and guide to the study of antiquities in EgyptFor the use of students and travellers . Fig. 193.—Sculptors sketch fromOld Kingdom tomb. chest are more accentuated in others, or the legs arefarther apart. The master did not find much tocorrect in the work of these assistants. Here andthere he altered a head, he flattened or accentuateda knee, or modified the arrange- ment of some detail. In oneinstance, however, at KomOmbos several of the divinitieson the roof were badly placed,and their feet came where theirarms should have been : themaster readjusted their positi
Manual of Egyptian archæology and guide to the study of antiquities in EgyptFor the use of students and travellers . Fig. 193.—Sculptors sketch fromOld Kingdom tomb. chest are more accentuated in others, or the legs arefarther apart. The master did not find much tocorrect in the work of these assistants. Here andthere he altered a head, he flattened or accentuateda knee, or modified the arrange- ment of some detail. In oneinstance, however, at KomOmbos several of the divinitieson the roof were badly placed,and their feet came where theirarms should have been : themaster readjusted their positionon the same squared surfacewithout effacing the original sketch. Here, at any rate, the error was noticed intime ; at Karnak on the northern wall of the hypostylehall, and again at Medinet Habu, the error was onlydiscovered after the sculptor had completed his figures of Seti I. and Rameses HI. sloped back-wards, and appeared about to overbalance; they. Fig. 194.—Sculptors cor-rection. Medinet Habu. SCULPTORS TOOLS. 221 were filled in with cement or stucco and cut cement has now fallen out, and traces of thefirst chiselling are once more visible ; thus bothSeti I. and Rameses III. have two profiles, onescarcely marked, the other cut in high relief (fig. 194).The sculptors of the Pharaonic age were not sowell provided with tools as those of our own of the kneeling scribes in the Cairo Museumhas been carved out of limestone with the chisel ;the flat lines made by the tool are visible on hisskin. A statue in grey serpentine in the samecollection shows traces of twodifferent tools : the body is markedall over with the point; the headis unfinished, but it has beenblocked out by chipping it with asmall hammer. Similar observa-tions and study of the monuments , ^ . Fig. 195.—Bow drill. have shown that the Egyptianswere familiar with the drill (fig. 195), the toothedchisel, and the gouge, but there has been endlessdisc
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