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 SCULI'TURE UNDER THE SeCOND ThEBAX EmPIRE. 255 masterpiece (Fig. 219). The noble lines of the profile, recalling his father Seti, are indeed his, but the eye is too large and the Fig. 219.— Pcrtra'.t of Rameses II. while a ctiki, acuial -ize. Limestone. In the Louvre. hands are treated with an elegance which is more than a little mannered. The urcTus on his brow and the titles engraved bv