The best, perhaps, is at the Turin Museum, and dates from the Twentieth Dynasty.

It represents a young girl whose only garment is a slender girdle.

She is of that indefinite age when the undeveloped form is almost as much like that of a boy as of a girl.

The expression of the head is gentle, yet saucy.

It is, in fact, across thirty centuries of time, a portrait of one of those graceful little maidens of Elephantine, who, without immodesty or embarrassment, walk unclothed in sight of strangers.