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 ;o8 A History of Art in Ancient Egypt. Fig. 255 shows a workman fashioning a tet with a kind of hatchet or mattock, which he uses much as if it were a mallet. The only doubt that remains is as to the material employed by the Egyptian sculptors in their attacks upon the granite. Were Fio. 252. — From a painting at Thebes (Cliampollion, pi. 161). their mallets and points of stone or of metal ? They could only dispose of instruments which, with the exception of the chisel, were incompatible with really delicate workmanship. With the latter instrument the skilful carver can obtain any effect he