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 The Prin'cipal Conventions in Egyptian Sculpture. ^2-^ treated twice, side by side, once in the state of first sketch, and again as a finished study. The plaques which bear the heads of cynocephah, of lions and Honesses, are remarkable for the free- dom of their execution (Figs. 260, 261, and 262).^ The same Fig. 260. — Head of a Cynocephalus. may be said of fifteen royal heads found at Sakkarah. They should be examined together. They range- in order from Xo. 623, which is a roughly-blocked-out sketch, to 637, a finished head. Fig. 261. — Head of a Lion. Fig. 262. — Head of a Liones^. One ot these models is divided down the middle, so as to give accent to the profile. A few of them are squared in order to test the proportions. But even here no canon of proportion is to be 1 Xos. 652-654 of the Xo/h-e Ju Miisce. - In the Boulak catalogue.