— 4G — 
same reason, i. e., in order to make the body complete, not only in 
form but also in substance, that the viscera, which, in other times, 
Avere placed in Canopic Jars apart from the body, were replaced 
in the body of the mummy in the 21st dynasty. 
In support of the hypothesis that the body was intended to 
take the place of the statue, there is the interesting fact that at 
this time — and, so far as I can ascertain, at no other period — the 
bod}' was painted like the statues of the earlier dynasties. 
The female bodies were painted with a mixture identified by 
Dr. Schmidt as chrome yellow and gum, i. e., with the same mate- 
rials w^iich M. Maspero has mentioned as having been used for 
painting female statues. ^ 
The bodies of the men were painted either red, rose-colour or 
more usually a dull reddish or yellowish brown. In many cases 
the brown paint when moistened and rubbed off on cotton wool 
becomes light yellow, indistinguishable from that used on the 
women's bodies. This fact, at first very puzzling, is interesting 
in view of M. Maspero's statement that " at Sakkarah under the 
5th Dynasty, and at Abû Simbel, under the 19th Dynasty 
we find men with skins as yellow as those of the women ; while 
in the tombs of Thebes and Abydos, about the time of Thothmes 
IV and Horemheb, there occur figures with flesh-tints of rose- 
colour" {op. cit., pp. 204, 205). 
* G, Maspero, MuhuuI of Eijyptian Archaeologij , translated by Amelia B. Edwards, 
London 1895, p. 203. 
