RESULTS OF EXCAVATIONS Al BUBASTIS. Lok 
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 Rameses IL., 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 each 
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. 
