Little papyrus skiffs, each rowed by a single boatman, and other vessels fill the vacant spaces of the composition.

Behind the buildings we see the commencement of the desert.

The water forms large pools at the base of overhanging hills, and various animals, real or imaginary, are pursued by shaven-headed hunters in the upper part of the picture.

Now, precisely after the manner of the Roman mosaicist, the old Egyptian artist placed himself, as it were, on the Nile, and reproduced all that lay between his own standpoint and the horizon.

In the wall-painting (fig.