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Manual Of Egyptian Archaeology And Guide To The Study Of Antiquities In Egypt

CHAPTER V
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His companion is a priest (fig.

244), who wears his hair in rows of little curls one above the other, and is clad in a long petticoat falling below the calf of the leg and spreading out in front in a kind of plaited apron.

He holds a sacred standard consisting of a stout staff surmounted by a ram's head crowned with the solar disc.

Both officer and priest are painted red brown, with the exception of the hair, which is black; the cornea of the eyes, which is white; and the standard, which is yellow.

Curiously enough, the little lady Nai, who inhabits the same glass case, is also painted reddish brown, instead of buff, which was the canonical colour for women (fig.


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