193 .-- The Kneeling Scribe, Old Empire.] [Illustration: Fig.

194 .-- A Bread-maker, Old Empire.] Turning to the "Sheikh el Beled" (figs.

188, 191), we descend several degrees in the social scale.

Raemka was a "superintendent of works," which probably means that he was an overseer of corvee labour at the time of building the great pyramids.

He belonged to the middle class; and his whole person expresses vulgar contentment and self-satisfaction.