BAS-RELIEF. 
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his feet. The chiseling of the feathers is exquisite; but the 
most singular part of the sculpture is the projection of two large 
horns from the crown of his head; they support a row of three 
halls or circles, within which we see smaller ones described. 
Three vessels, not unlike our European decanters, and regu¬ 
larly fluted, rest upon these balls, being crested again by three 
smaller circles. On each side of the whole, like supporters to a 
coat of arms, stand two small creatures resembling mummies of the 
Ibis, but having a bent termination to their swathed form. Over 
all is the inscription. The figure, from head to foot, measures 
seven feet; the width of the stone where he stands is five feet: 
two feet from that line reaches the present level of the ground. 
Like all the other pillars I have seen in this valley? a deep and 
long concavity runs nearly the whole length of the shaft on the 
side contrary to that where the figure stands. The pillar has 
been much broken towards the top, but the bas-relief, with the 
exception of the face and hands, has scarcely suffered. The 
proportions of the figure are not in the least defective, nor can 
any fault be found with its taste, being perfectly free from the 
dry wooden appearance we generally find in Egyptian works of 
the kind; and, in fact, it reminded me so entirely of the grace¬ 
ful simplicity of design which characterises the best Grecian 
friezes, that I considered it a duty to the history of the art, to 
copy the forms- before me, exactly as I saw ; without allowing my 
pencil to add, or diminish, or to alter a line. May I be excused 
in repeating here, that such undeviating accuracy to the utmost 
of my power, is the principle to which I bound myself Q the 
execution of all the drawings I made in the East. 
To form a conjecture of what this figure was absolutely intended 
to represent, is far beyond my pretensions. It will be seen, how- 
