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THE ORIGIN OF PORTRAIT SCULPTURE.
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many layers of linen hardened together by glue, and coated
outside with stucco. This cartonnage is impressed all over
the arms, shoulders and head-dress, with a reticulated sex-
agonal pattern, which gives the surface the appearance of
being honey-combed. Each little sexagonal hollow is paint-
ed blue, the groundwork being of a vivid yellow. The face,
hands, and necklace are also painted blue.
This mask of Kameses II., from the lid
of his wooden sarcophagus, is in the Muse-
um of Ghizeh. The head, however, is not
a contemporary portrait; neither does it
faithfully reproduce the features of Ba-
rneses II.; but it is a very beautiful speci-
men of portrait sculpture in wood of the
time of the Twenty-first Dynasty. The
sarcophagus adorned with this wood-sculp-
ture appears to have been made to receive
the mummy of Kameses II., in the sixth
year of the rule of Her-Hor Se-Amen, of
the Twenty-first Dynasty, when the tombs
of the earlier Pharaohs were visited by
Government inspectors, and when (accord-
ing to the entries inscribed on their coffins)
the "funerary appointments" of Seti I. and
Kameses II. were renewed by order of Her- ra-em ka.
Ilor, then High-Priest of Amen, and after-
wards king.(3") The features of this mask bear, however,
a curious resemblance to the features of the little pen-portraits
of Her-Hor in the great funerary papyrus of his mother,
Queen ]STotem-Maut; and this furnishes us. perhaps, with a
clue to its unwritten history. To give up his own tomb in
favor of another, has ever been a distinguished mark of honor
among the nations of the East;(") and it is quite possible
that Her-Hor may have given up to his illustrious predeces-
sor the beautiful mummy-case made for his own mortal re-
mains, when he too should be summoned to traverse the Val-
ley of the Shadow of Death.
157
many layers of linen hardened together by glue, and coated
outside with stucco. This cartonnage is impressed all over
the arms, shoulders and head-dress, with a reticulated sex-
agonal pattern, which gives the surface the appearance of
being honey-combed. Each little sexagonal hollow is paint-
ed blue, the groundwork being of a vivid yellow. The face,
hands, and necklace are also painted blue.
This mask of Kameses II., from the lid
of his wooden sarcophagus, is in the Muse-
um of Ghizeh. The head, however, is not
a contemporary portrait; neither does it
faithfully reproduce the features of Ba-
rneses II.; but it is a very beautiful speci-
men of portrait sculpture in wood of the
time of the Twenty-first Dynasty. The
sarcophagus adorned with this wood-sculp-
ture appears to have been made to receive
the mummy of Kameses II., in the sixth
year of the rule of Her-Hor Se-Amen, of
the Twenty-first Dynasty, when the tombs
of the earlier Pharaohs were visited by
Government inspectors, and when (accord-
ing to the entries inscribed on their coffins)
the "funerary appointments" of Seti I. and
Kameses II. were renewed by order of Her- ra-em ka.
Ilor, then High-Priest of Amen, and after-
wards king.(3") The features of this mask bear, however,
a curious resemblance to the features of the little pen-portraits
of Her-Hor in the great funerary papyrus of his mother,
Queen ]STotem-Maut; and this furnishes us. perhaps, with a
clue to its unwritten history. To give up his own tomb in
favor of another, has ever been a distinguished mark of honor
among the nations of the East;(") and it is quite possible
that Her-Hor may have given up to his illustrious predeces-
sor the beautiful mummy-case made for his own mortal re-
mains, when he too should be summoned to traverse the Val-
ley of the Shadow of Death.