Manual of Egyptian archæology and guide to the study of antiquities in EgyptFor the use of students and travellers . lossus ofAlexander II. mutilated figure of a prince of Siut that might perhaps 270 PAINTING AND SCULPTURE. pass for a poor Roman statue. The statue of apersonage named Horus discovered in 1881 not far from the site of the tombof Alexander is the mostpowerful example that wepossess of this hybridschool (fig. 225). Thehead is a good piece ofwork, though perhapssomewhat dry in thin straight nose, theeyes placed close together,the straight mouth pinchedin at the corners, a
Manual of Egyptian archæology and guide to the study of antiquities in EgyptFor the use of students and travellers . lossus ofAlexander II. mutilated figure of a prince of Siut that might perhaps 270 PAINTING AND SCULPTURE. pass for a poor Roman statue. The statue of apersonage named Horus discovered in 1881 not far from the site of the tombof Alexander is the mostpowerful example that wepossess of this hybridschool (fig. 225). Thehead is a good piece ofwork, though perhapssomewhat dry in thin straight nose, theeyes placed close together,the straight mouth pinchedin at the corners, and thesquare chin all conduceto give an expression ofharshness and obstinacy tothe face. The hair is short,but not so cropped as toprevent its separatingnaturally into thick wavylocks. The body clothedin the chlamys is clumsyand not in accord with thehead. One arm is hangingdown, the other is bentand resting on the body,the feet are gone. All thisstatuary is the result ofrecent finds, and there is no doubt that systematicexcavations at Alexandria would.; produce muchmore. The school that produced them gradually. ^UCJ^fu^2^ Fig. 225.—Statue of gr/ECo-egyptian art. 271 approached more and more nearly to the style ofthe Greek schools, and the stiffness, from whichit never entirely freed itself, would scarcely beregarded as a defect at a time when certainsculptors employed in Rome prided themselves ontheir archaisms. I should not be surprised if thestatues of priests and priestesses with which Hadriandecorated the Egyptian part of his villa on the Tibermight be attributed to this Alexandrian hybridschool. The native schools outside the Delta, left to theirown resources, gradually perished. And yet theywere not without models, or even Greek artists. Inthe Thebaid, in the Fayum, and at Assuan, I havebought or discovered statues and statuettes which areHellenic in style and of correct and carefulworkmanship. One of them, bought at Koptos,appears to be a small
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