181 .-- Bow drill.] The sculptors of ancient Egypt were not so well equipped as those of our own day.

A kneeling scribe in limestone at the Gizeh Museum has been carved with the chisel, the grooves left by the tool being visible on his skin.

A statue in grey serpentine, in the same collection, bears traces of the use of two different tools, the body being spotted all over with point-marks, and the unfinished head being blocked out splinter by splinter with a small hammer.

Similar observations, and the study of the monuments, show that the drill (fig.

181), the toothed-chisel, and the gouge were also employed.
There have been endless discussions as to whether these tools were of iron or of bronze.