Gallery of antiquities, selected from the British Museum . ^. ^i. THOTHMES III. (MEPHRES). 81 The other monument {fig. 147) of this king in the Museum is a drawing made by anEgyptian artist upon a board prepared with linen and stucco, and subsequently squared, tofacilitate his operations. The divisions are in red lines, and adapted to the canon of Egyptianproportions. This is a point for future investigation, and it is evident from the plate itself howthe rule is applied. The king is seated, his hair encircled with a fillet, elegantly tied in a bow,resembling flowers, and with pendent ribands;

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Gallery of antiquities, selected from the British Museum . ^. ^i. THOTHMES III. (MEPHRES). 81 The other monument {fig. 147) of this king in the Museum is a drawing made by anEgyptian artist upon a board prepared with linen and stucco, and subsequently squared, tofacilitate his operations. The divisions are in red lines, and adapted to the canon of Egyptianproportions. This is a point for future investigation, and it is evident from the plate itself howthe rule is applied. The king is seated, his hair encircled with a fillet, elegantly tied in a bow,resembling flowers, and with pendent ribands; round it is twisted the usual urseus, emblem ofroyalty, and he wears a collar and long royal tunic. In his right hand he holds a hodj, or mace,and in his left a long wand, or baton, terminating in a knob. Before him are two cartouchesexpressing his prenomen, Re-men-tor-ka, the sun establishing appointed offerings. Thesediffer, by the addition of the last symbol, from the ordinary prenomens ; but this last symbol isso nearly that of the dynasty, that this f

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