Painted bas-reliefs, statues of kings and private persons, colossi, sphinxes, may be counted by hundreds between the mouths of the Nile and the fourth cataract.

The old sacerdotal cities, Memphis, Thebes, Abydos, are naturally the richest; but so great was the impetus given to art, that even remote provincial towns, such as Abu Simbel, Redesiyeh, and Mesheikh, have their _chefs-d'oeuvre_, like the great cities.

The official portraits of Amenhotep I.at Turin, of Thothmes I.and Thothmes III.

at the British Museum, at Karnak, at Turin, and at Gizeh, are conceived in the style of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Dynasties, and are deficient in originality; but the bas-reliefs in temples and tombs show a marked advance upon those of the earlier ages.

The modelling is finer; the figures are more numerous and better grouped; the relief is higher; the effects of perspective are more carefully worked out.