recently identified as Manetho’s A chench eres, it nearly rose to beauty,
attaining its culmination under tbe reign of A meno ph is the TTT
Though the eye is enclosed in a peculiar conventional frame, while
the lips invariably smile, the muscles of the chest, belly, and arms,
are less distinctly marked, and the knees are incorrect; yet, notwithstanding
these defects, the individuality of the monarchs and princes
whose statues adorn our Museums is most expressively rendered, particularly
among some of the collection at Turin. Colossuses begin
to be sculptured; and the idea of grandeur which pervades these
monuments seeks an expression in external size.
_ Thf following portraits in wood-cut, reduced from Lepsius’s beautiful
lithographs, sufficiently illustrate the style of the XVTIth Dyn.
Fis - 12- Fig. 13.
A m u n o p h L
Fig.. 14.
A m d n o p h n.
F ig. 16.
T h o tm e s I. . T h o tm e s I I I .
™ c^> Chevalier’s chronology, comprises the epoch of Abraam.
I regret, however, that the engraver, unskilled in Egyptian