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Tin; FicJURE. 347 that would be rendered in a more summary fashion by the chisel. The mandore player in Fig. 270, who comes from the same hypogeum at Abd-el-Gournah as the Amenophis III. upon the knees of a goddess in Fig. 24, is one of these rare instances. The hair, plaited into narrow tresses and retained in place by a long comb, is carried out with quite unusual care. The areolae of the breasts are very clearly marked, a detail which Prisse says he never met with elsewhere.^ I IG. 272. — European prisoner. Frcm Champollion. 1- IG. 273. — Head of the same prisoner. The slender proportions which we have already noticed as characteristic of this period are here strongly marked. They are also conspicuous in the figures in Plate II. This is a funerary scene. Three women stand before the defunct ; one hands the cup for the libation, the two others play upon the flute and the harp respectively. This fragment must have formed part of a funerary scene similar to that put before us in full by a painting in one of the tombs in the Valley of Queens at Thebes. We there see women ^ Prisse, Histoirc de fArt Egyptien, text, p. 424.