259 .-- Chest.] [Illustration: Fig.

260 .-- Chest.] The art of the cabinet-maker was nevertheless carried to a high degree of perfection, from the time of the ancient dynasties.

Planks were dressed down with the adze, mortised, glued, joined together by means of pegs cut in hard wood, or acacia thorns (never by metal nails), polished, and finally covered with paintings.

Chests generally stand upon four straight legs, and are occasionally thus raised to some height from the ground.

The lid is flat, or rounded according to a special curvature (fig.