Manual of Egyptian archæology and guide to the study of antiquities in EgyptFor the use of students and travellers . 342 THE INDUSTRIAL ARTS. ^m -•^i- prayer or of lustration, and the work is generally extremely good. Both copper and bronze were early employed r;,?>v statuary. The statue of Pepi I. discovered byOuibell at Kom elAhmar has already beenmentioned. The tech-nique is not the leastinteresting thing aboutit. Bust, legs, and armswere hammered out andfitted together mostaccurately ; the hands,face, and feet were possess some piecesof the Eighteenth andNineteenth Dynasti
Manual of Egyptian archæology and guide to the study of antiquities in EgyptFor the use of students and travellers . 342 THE INDUSTRIAL ARTS. ^m -•^i- prayer or of lustration, and the work is generally extremely good. Both copper and bronze were early employed r;,?>v statuary. The statue of Pepi I. discovered byOuibell at Kom elAhmar has already beenmentioned. The tech-nique is not the leastinteresting thing aboutit. Bust, legs, and armswere hammered out andfitted together mostaccurately ; the hands,face, and feet were possess some piecesof the Eighteenth andNineteenth Dynasties ;the chased lions headfound with the jewelsand weapons of QueenAahhotep, the Harpo-crates of Cairo thatbears the names ofKarnes and of Aahmes I.,and several figures ofAmon in the samemuseum, said to comefrom Aledinet Habu and. Fig 308.—Bronze statuette of thelady Takushet. Sheikh Abd el Gurneh, are of that period. The mostimportant pieces belong to the Twenty-second orTwenty-sixth Dynasty, while many are no earlier BRONZES. i43 than the beginning of the Ptolemaic period. Afragment from Tanis in the possession of CountStroganeff formed part of a statue of King Petukhanuof the Twenty-first Dynasty. It must have been atleast two-thirds of life-size, and is one of thelargest pieces we portrait statuette ofthe lady Takiishet givenby M. Demetrio to themuseum at Athens, thefour figures at theLouvre, and the kneel-ing genius at Cairo cameoriginally from Bubastis,and probably date fromthe years that imme-diately preceded theaccession of Psamme-tichus I. The ladyTakushet is standing,one foot advanced, theright arm pendent, theleft arm folded belowthe breast (fig. 308). Shewears a short robe em-broidered with religioussubjects, and she has bracelets on her arms and head is covered with a wig o
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