We may almost count the locks of the hair, the plaits of the linen, the inlayings of the girdles and bracelets.

This mixture of artless science and intentional awkwardness, of rapid execution and patient finish, excludes neither elegance of form, nor grace of attitude, nor truth of movement.
These personages are of strange aspect, but they live; and to those who will take the trouble to look at them without prejudice, their very strangeness has a charm about it which is often lacking to works more recent in date and more strictly true to nature.
[Illustration: Fig.

167 .-- Funerary repast, tomb of Horemheb, Eighteenth Dynasty.] [Illustration: Fig.

168 .-- From a wall-painting, Thebes, Ramesside period.] We admit, then, that the Egyptians could draw.

Were they, as it has been ofttimes asserted, ignorant of the art of composition?
We will take a scene at hazard from a Theban tomb--that scene which represents the funerary repast offered to Prince Horemheb by the members of his family (fig.