We must not dream of comparing it with our own, or even with that of the Greeks; but if we take it simply for what it is, accepting it in the secondary place assigned to it, we cannot fail to recognise its unusual merits.

Egyptian painting excelled in the sense of monumental decoration, and if we ever revert to the fashion of colouring the _facades_ of our houses and our public edifices, we shall lose nothing by studying Egyptian methods or reproducing Egyptian processes.
[35] The late T.Deveria ingeniously conjectured that "Ba-en-pet" (iron of heaven) might mean the ferruginous substance of meteoric stones.

See _Melanges d'Archeologie Egyptienne et Assyrienne_, vol.i .-- A.B.E.
[36] The traces of tools upon the masonry show the use of bronze and jewel-points .-- A.B.E.
[37] Many such trial-pieces were found by Petrie in the ruins of a sculptor's house at Tell el Amarna.
[38] A similar collection was found by Mr.F.Ll.Griffith at Tell Gemayemi, in 1886, during his excavations for the Egypt Exploration Fund.

See Mr.Petrie's _Tanis_.

Part II., Egypt Exploration Fund .-- A.B.E.
[39] Mr.Loftie's collection contains, however, an interesting piece of trial-work consisting of the head of a Ptolemaic queen in red granite .-- A.B.E.
[40] For pigments used at the beginning of the Fourth Dynasty, see Petrie's _Medum_.
[41] The rose-coloured, or rather crimson, flesh-tints are also to be seen at El Kab, and in the famous speos at Beit el Wally, both _tempo_ Nineteenth Dynasty .-- A.B.E.
3 .-- WORKS OF SCULPTURE.
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