The bearer of offerings (fig.

253) wears the long pendent tresses distinctive of childhood, and is one of those slender, growing girls of the fellahin class whom one sees in such numbers on the banks of the Nile.

Her lack of clothing is, however, no evidence of want of birth, for not even the children of nobility were wont to put on the garments of their sex before the period of adolescence.

Lastly, the slave (fig.

254), with his thick lips, his high shoulders, his flat nose, his heavy, animal jaw, his low brow, and his bare, conical head, is evidently a caricature of some foreign prisoner.