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DISCO VERIES AT ABO IT SIMBEL.
311
clerful preservation of the surface enabled one to see by
what means the ancient artists were wont to produce this
singular blue-black effect of color. It was evident that the
flesh of the god had first been laid in with dead black, and
then colored over with a
dry, powdery cobalt-blue,
through which the black
remained partially visible.
He carries in one hand the
ankh, and in the other the
greyhound-headed scepter.
To him advances the king,
his right hand uplifted,
and in his left a small bas-
ket containing a votive
statuette of Ma, the god-
dess of truth and justice.
Ma is, however, shorn of
her distinctive feather, and
"olds the jackal-headed
staff instead of the custo-
mary crux ansata.
As portraiture, there is
not much to be said for
any of these heads of
Barneses II; but the feat
tures bear a certain resem-
blance to the well-known
profile of the king; the
action of the figure is
graceful and animated ;
and the drawing displays
111 all its purity the firm
and flowing line of Egyp-
tian draughtsmanship.
The dress of the king is
j[gry_rich in color; the mitershaped casque being of a
that our English words, chemical, chemist, chemistry, etc., which
the dictionaries derive from the Arabic al-kimia, may he traced back
*istep farther to the Panopolitan name of this most ancient god of
tlie Egyptians, Khem(Gr. Pan; Latin, Priapus), the deity of plants
and herbs and of the creative principle. A cultivated Egyptian would,
doubtless, have regarded all these Aniens as merely local or symboli-
cal types of a single deity.
P.AJIESES II OP M'EOS.
311
clerful preservation of the surface enabled one to see by
what means the ancient artists were wont to produce this
singular blue-black effect of color. It was evident that the
flesh of the god had first been laid in with dead black, and
then colored over with a
dry, powdery cobalt-blue,
through which the black
remained partially visible.
He carries in one hand the
ankh, and in the other the
greyhound-headed scepter.
To him advances the king,
his right hand uplifted,
and in his left a small bas-
ket containing a votive
statuette of Ma, the god-
dess of truth and justice.
Ma is, however, shorn of
her distinctive feather, and
"olds the jackal-headed
staff instead of the custo-
mary crux ansata.
As portraiture, there is
not much to be said for
any of these heads of
Barneses II; but the feat
tures bear a certain resem-
blance to the well-known
profile of the king; the
action of the figure is
graceful and animated ;
and the drawing displays
111 all its purity the firm
and flowing line of Egyp-
tian draughtsmanship.
The dress of the king is
j[gry_rich in color; the mitershaped casque being of a
that our English words, chemical, chemist, chemistry, etc., which
the dictionaries derive from the Arabic al-kimia, may he traced back
*istep farther to the Panopolitan name of this most ancient god of
tlie Egyptians, Khem(Gr. Pan; Latin, Priapus), the deity of plants
and herbs and of the creative principle. A cultivated Egyptian would,
doubtless, have regarded all these Aniens as merely local or symboli-
cal types of a single deity.
P.AJIESES II OP M'EOS.