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 76 A History of Art in Ancient Egypt. glass. The larger of the two, which still has the hook, by which it was suspended, in its head, is entirely covered with parti-coloured ornaments similar to those shown upon its right shoulder. Our drauo^htsman at Boulak had no time to finish the drawing^ he had begun, and we have reproduced it in its actual condition rather than omit it or have it completed in any degree conjecturally. The details given afford a sufficiently good idea of the motives -Glass statuette. Actual size. Boulak. Fig. 307. -Glass statuette. Actual size. Boulak. employed by the Egyptian artist. The ornamentation of the other figure is more simple (Fig. 307), but the attitude is the same. There are two colours on the very well modelled head which acts as tail-piece to the Iiitrodttction in our first volume. The globe of the eye and its contours stand out in black against the yellow of the flesh. The wig is also black. Nothing can have been more surprising to the ancient traveller who set foot upon the soil of Egypt for the first time, than the