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Show GENERAL REMARKS ON ICONOGRAPTIY. 115 recently identified as Manctho's AonENCHERES, it nearly rose to beauty, attaining its culmination under the reign of AMENOPIIIS the ill. Though the eye is enclosed in a peculiar conventional frame, while the lips invariably smile, the muscles of the chest, belly, and arms, are less distinctlymarked, and the knees are incorrect; yet, notwithstanding these defects, the individuality of the monarchs and princes whose statues adorn our Museums is most expressively rendered, particularly among some of the collection at Turin. Colossuses begin to be sculptured; and the idea of grandeur which pervades thcl:lo monuments seeks an expression in external size. The following portraits in wood-cut, reduced from Lcpsius's beautiful lithographs, sufficiently illustrate the style of the XV lith Dyn. Fig. 12. Fig. 18. AMUNOPH II. Fig. 16. TuoTMES III. which in the Chevalier's chronology, comprises the epoch of Abra~ ham. 'I regret, however~ that the engraver, unskilled in Egyptian |
