Sculpture under the First Thehan Empire. -OD the Fayoum, admits of no doubt. The kings who decorated the temple at Tanis with the fine sphinxes and groups of fishermen which I found among its ruins, must also have trans- ported the vigorous fragments which we have before our eyes to the other side of Eg}-pt." Finally, Deveria and De Rouge have suggested that a work of the same school is to be recognized in the fragment of a 'SAi-iii
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Fir,. 211. — Side view of the same group. Drawn by Bourgoin. statuette of green basalt, which belongs to the Louvre and is figured upon page 22,7.^ They point to similarities of feature and of race characteristics. The face of the Louvre statuette has a truculence of expression not unlike that of the Tanite monuments, while the workmanship is purely Egyptian and of the best quality ; the flexibility of body, which is one of the most ' Deveria, Ze/fre i) A/. Aug. Manefte, p. 258. — Pierret, Catalogue de la Salle Historique, No. 6.
