CERCOPITHECUS PYEEHONOTUS. 
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The Cercopitheci are freqaently found depicted on the early monuments of Egypt, 
both painted and engraved, but this does not necessarily prove that they were ever 
objects of worship. A monkey of this genus is often represented tied under the chair 
of some member of the family of the Pharaohs or of his officials, with whom it was 
probably a household pet. It has been suggested by Ehrenberg that the monkey 
figured in tombs with a belt round its body W’as one of the objects provided for the 
amusement of the dead. 
There is a Relief on which this species is portrayed, still in a state of perfect 
preservation, in the splendid collection of Egyptian monuments in the Royal Museum 
at Berlin, which Passalacqua brought from Sakkarah in the province of Memphis, 
along with other most precious and numerous relics. It formed a portion of the inner 
wall of the Tomb of Rij and is of tbe XIXth Dynasty Other figures are represented 
besides those of the deceased and his wife, who are seated. Under the chair of the 
latter, to which it is tied, the monkey stands erect. There are yet traces of colouring in 
the figure; the face, hands, and feet, as well as the cord, have indications of red; the 
rest of the body is differently coloured, being somewhat greyish green or blue. The size 
of this figure is 20*4 cm. in height 2 . Among other representations there is a beautiful 
wooden group ^ of Amen-em-opet and his wife, where a monkey is seated eating fruit 
beneath the lady’s chair. 
1 Kat. Kgl. Mus. Berlin, 1899, Ao. 7278, p. 148, fig. p. 149. 
^ [The author s note having been submitted to Dr. H. Schafer, he kindly supplied the accurate measure¬ 
ments of the animal, adding the interesting observations on its colouring.—Gr. S. A.] 
^ Op. cit. no. 6910, p. 142. 
