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the same type and proportions as that in the British 

 Museum, but the face is not quite the same; it is evidently 

 an older man; it has the advantage of having preserved the 

 curve of the nose. If the two heads represent the same 

 man at two different ages, the Boulak head was made the 

 last. We took also to Boulak all that remains of the statue, 

 the base, which turned out to have been split in two in the 

 direction of the height, so that there is only one leg left. As 

 for the statue of the British Museum, unfortunately it is not 

 complete. Although last winter we left not an inch of ground 

 unturned in the vicinity of the place where we had found the 

 other fragments ; although we went to a great depth, we could 

 not discover the only piece wanting, the upper part of the 

 torso from the waist to the neck. Nevertheless, I have 

 no hesitation in saying that such as it is the statue is one 

 of the most precious Egyptian monuments which have been 

 preserved. Allow me to recommend you to go to the British 

 Museum to look at it. You will notice that the Hyksos 

 artists, or at least the Egyptians who worked for the Hyksos, 

 followed the traditions of the early sculptors who had portrait 

 statues to make. The workmanship of the lower part of 

 the body is much inferior to that of the upper part, and 

 especially of the head. This fact is general in the statues of 

 the Thirteenth dynasty, whether they have preserved their 

 original name, like the Sebekhotep of Paris, or whether they 

 have been usurped by Barneses II., like the statue of this king 

 which I found at Bubastis, and which has been given to my 

 native city. All the care of the artist has been bestowed on 

 the head, all his skill has been devoted to making a likeness 

 as good as possible. Consider attentively the face, look at 

 the beautifully-modelled features, the special care which the 

 artist has taken to reproduce all the characteristic signs of 

 the race, the strongly-marked cheek-bones, the stout and 

 projecting lips, the somewhat hollow cheeks, the fleshy cor- 

 ners of the mouth; if you bear in mind that this has been cut 

 in an extremely hard stone, you will agree with me that this 

 head, regardless of its historical value, is a work of art, and 

 even a masterpiece. 



But whose portrait is it ? which name are we to give to this 

 statue ? There is no doubt that it represents a shepherd king, 

 but has his cartouche been found anywhere on the monument ? 

 Unfortunately not. The two statues which were near eaeh 

 other at the entrance of the temple had both the cartouches 

 of the king who raised them engraved on the throne along 

 the legs. But they shared the common fate which befel so 

 many interesting monuments; the names were cut out. 



