454 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1915. 



This stuff must, therefore, have been poured upon the board while 

 liquid and presumably warm, and then the; sculptor modeled into 

 its surface, perhaps with a heated metal instrument, the charming 

 reliefs represented in plate 7. The sculpture represents the king 

 and the queen. He has embraced her with his left arm and loosely 

 lays his hand upon her shoulder; she turns with her face to him 

 and, with her right hand busying itself at his bosom, she nestles 

 on his broad neck ornament. Costume, type, and treatment of the 

 bodies leave no doubt as to the date of this art work. Even if the 

 location where it was found were unknown, every connoisseur would 

 unhesitatingly attribute it to the time of Amenophis IV, and, on 

 account of the unartificial, dashing execution, with the same cer- 

 tainty would pronounce it the first sketch of a relief. This will 

 suffice for the present. There are obviously connected with this 

 find many other questions which are to be discussed later, such as 

 the real composition of the "resin mass," the origin of the several 

 ingredients, their workableness when combined, the instruments with 

 which they were worked, their suitability for casts in gypsum, etc. 



It was intimated above that in the square of houses O 47 we seem 

 to have come across a new center of sculptural finds, for in this 

 region there came to light niany unfinished granite pieces to be laid 

 into reliefs, representing wigs, a very beautiful torso of the statuette 

 of a queen, though the wooden head of the queen is unfortunately 

 totally decayed, the baboon's head mentioned above (pi. 6, fig. 1), etc. 

 Only two of these finds will here be specially considered. There is 

 first of all a small limestone mask (pi. 9, fig. 1) doubtless copied from 

 a life-size gypsum mask, many examples of which have been found in 

 the modeling chamber of Thutmes. The wrinkles on the forehead, at 

 the base of the nose and around the nose wings and the mouth are 

 here, and in a non-Egyptian fashion well indicated, though in a more 

 schematic manner than on the large masks. 



Only 50 meters from the above there was found another study (pi. 9, 

 fig. 2), a portrait of Amenophis IV, which in its almost incredible 

 delicacy can confidently be placed by the side of the best reliefs of 

 this king. The artist succeeded best in reproducing the eyes, cheeks, 

 and front of the neck. As the main concern was the portrait, the 

 accessories of the royal costume, such as the headcloth, the frontlet, 

 and the asp (uraeus), are treated in a secondary manner and even 

 to some extent merely indicated. 



So much concerning the finds of models in this region which, as 

 stated, is in the environs of a new center of sculptural works, not 

 before carefully explored, though it may have been rummaged by 

 our predecessors. 



The last find to be mentioned came from an entirely different district, 

 from house Q 48, 1, which is also remarkable for the frequent occur- 



