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D1SCUSSI0NS AND NOTES.
viz. (the length of the foot being taken as
the unit):—
Sole to knec,
Kuee to buttock,
Buttock to elbow,
Elbow to armpit,
Armpit to Shoulder,
Shoulder to forehead,
Forehead to crown,
2 lengths
1 length
1
2
■2
3
1
4
= 2 lengths
This gives (i feet (i.e. foot-lengths) as the
height to the place where hair commences on
the brow. A vertical guiding line is also
customarily drawn through the figure. This
has not been reproduced in the plates.
Colour Notes.
42. All the most valuable notes of colour
have been embodied in Mr. Griffith's chapter on
the hieroglyphs in Part I. A few additions
may be made.
The dresses of the women bear traces of
green colouring in one or two instances in
Pls. xv. and xvi. The baskets of the first two
figures in PL xv. are painted in a minute
wicker-work pattern of green and yellow. The
pin-tailed ducks in the pile of offerings (Pls.
xxiv. and xxxiv.) have red head and throat, the
fore-part of the body blue, the hind-part yellow,
blue wings with red transverse stripes, blue
bill, legs and tail feathers. The other species of
bird depicted there has brown neck, body and
wings, and red legs, while wing feathers, bands
on tail and markings on the body are blue.
It may be noticed that the designs for
sculpture were not invariably drawn in uniform
red or black ink outline. Blue, green and
yellow were also employed, each object receiving
the colour most appropriate to it. A wash of
colour was also sometimes laid over the whole
object, thus foreshadowing the final scheme of
painting. This was the case in the corridor
(birds in lower registers of PI. v.; ships, PI. x. ;
offerings, PL xvii.). The scenes are framed
below by a painted border of two colours
terminated by black (PL xvii.), and at the sides
(and top ?) by the usual border of coloured
rectangles within green bands. Traces of this
border remain here and there, but I have not
indicated it.
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viz. (the length of the foot being taken as
the unit):—
Sole to knec,
Kuee to buttock,
Buttock to elbow,
Elbow to armpit,
Armpit to Shoulder,
Shoulder to forehead,
Forehead to crown,
2 lengths
1 length
1
2
■2
3
1
4
= 2 lengths
This gives (i feet (i.e. foot-lengths) as the
height to the place where hair commences on
the brow. A vertical guiding line is also
customarily drawn through the figure. This
has not been reproduced in the plates.
Colour Notes.
42. All the most valuable notes of colour
have been embodied in Mr. Griffith's chapter on
the hieroglyphs in Part I. A few additions
may be made.
The dresses of the women bear traces of
green colouring in one or two instances in
Pls. xv. and xvi. The baskets of the first two
figures in PL xv. are painted in a minute
wicker-work pattern of green and yellow. The
pin-tailed ducks in the pile of offerings (Pls.
xxiv. and xxxiv.) have red head and throat, the
fore-part of the body blue, the hind-part yellow,
blue wings with red transverse stripes, blue
bill, legs and tail feathers. The other species of
bird depicted there has brown neck, body and
wings, and red legs, while wing feathers, bands
on tail and markings on the body are blue.
It may be noticed that the designs for
sculpture were not invariably drawn in uniform
red or black ink outline. Blue, green and
yellow were also employed, each object receiving
the colour most appropriate to it. A wash of
colour was also sometimes laid over the whole
object, thus foreshadowing the final scheme of
painting. This was the case in the corridor
(birds in lower registers of PI. v.; ships, PI. x. ;
offerings, PL xvii.). The scenes are framed
below by a painted border of two colours
terminated by black (PL xvii.), and at the sides
(and top ?) by the usual border of coloured
rectangles within green bands. Traces of this
border remain here and there, but I have not
indicated it.
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