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 'A^ A History of Art in Ancient Egypt. with offerings and others playing upon musical instruments, advancing towards the deceased, who has his daughter upon his knees and his wife seated at his right hand (Fig. 269). The two often reproduced players upon the harp in the tomb of Rameses III. {long callQd Bruce s Tomb, after its discoverer) belong to the same class of representations (Fig. 271). Robed in a long black mantle, the musician abandons himself entirely to his music. The draughtsmanship of the arms is faulty, but the pose of the figure is natural and life-like. The harp is very richly ornamented ; Pig. 274. — Ethiopian prisoner. Champollion, pi. 932. Tig. 275. — Head of the same prisoner. its base terminates in a royal head rising from a circlet of ample necklaces. The wood seems to be inlaid with colour. Among the most interesting of the painted figures in the royal tombs are the prisoners of war and other representations of foreign and conquered races. We reproduce two of these figures from the tomb of Seti I. In order that the care expended by the artist both on the costumes and upon the peculiar characteristics of the physiognomies may be appreciated, we have given their figures at full length, and also their heads upon a larger scale. The first of these two prisoners must have been a European,