Sculpture under the Anxtent Empire. 21 at court by the graces of his person. He was a dwarf with all the characteristics that distinguish those unlucky beings. Hjs^ head was too large, his torso very long, his arms and legs ver)- short ; besides which he was marvellously dolichocephalic. Fig. 195. — Bread maker, Boulak. Drawn by Bourgoin. The sincerity of Egjptian art is conspicuously shown in its treatment of the foot. Winckelmann noticed that the feet in Eg}-ptian statues were larger and flatter than in those of Greece. Figs. 196, 197. — DetaLs of head-dre-ses. The great toes are straight, no articulations being shown. The second toe is always the longest, and the little toe is not bent in the middle but straight like the others. These peculiarities spring from the Egyptian habit of walking bare-foot on the Nile
