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the kings of the twelfth dynasty.!. From the New Empire, including 
the eighteenth to the twentieth dynasties,? we cite the draped wood 
statue of the priestess Tui, a gem of Egyptian art, which was found 
in a grave near Gurna, and is now in the Louvre; and lastly the draped 
alabaster statue of Queen Amenerdis (or Amenartas) in Cairo, the wife 























from Sakkarah. Museum of Cairo. 
of the Aethiopian King Piankhi, who began to absorb Egypt bv 721-722 
B.C., just before the twenty-fourth dynasty.* After the early dynasties, 
the Egyptian type of statue was reduced to a fixed and mechanical 
canon, which was used over and over again with lifeless monotony. In 
1Bulle, Pls. 11 (two views) and 12 (head); von Bissing, op. cit., I, Pl. XL, A (left); Maspero, Art 
in Egypt, p. 110, figs, 203-204. 
2We should add to the New Empire the Deltaic dynasties, from the twenty-first on. Breasted, 
l. c., assigns to the New Empire dynasties XVIII-XIX and part of XX, 1580-1150 B. C. 
3Bulle, Pl. 17 (left); Maspero, Hist. anc. des peuples de ? Orient classique, I, p. 531; id., Art in 
Egypt, p. 201, fig. 390 (=the Lady Nai); Mon. Piot, II, 1895, Pls. I-IV. 
4Bulle, Pl. 17 (right); von Bissing, II, Pl. LXIV; Maspero, Hizst., III, pp. 503-504 and PI. I; 
id., Art in Egypt, p. 238, fig. 455; Perrot-Chipiez, I, p. 714, fig. 481 (profile). Though the face is 
lifeless, the bust and lower trunk are delicately modeled. 
