LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
WRITING AND LITERATURE
PLATE FIGS.
1. 1-7. Early Semitic Alphabetic Writing . . . facing £.58
EGYPTIAN ART
2. I. Entrance colonnade (restored) of Zoser's funerary
monument at Saqqara. Illrd Dynasty . . „ 92
3. 2, Limestone funerary head from Giza, now in
Vienna. IVth Dynasty.
3. Similar head of a negro princess, from Giza, now
in Boston. IVth Dynasty . . . „ 93
4. 4. Crossing a ford: from the mastaba tomb of Ti at
SaqqSra. Vth Dynasty.
5. Harvest scene; and the stubborn ass; from the
mastaba tomb of Ti at Saqqara. Vth Dynasty „ 94
£. 6. Wooden model of porters, from the tomb of
Karenen at Saqqara, now in Cairo, First Inter-
mediate Period ....... 95
6. 7. Pectoral of Sesostris II, from Illahunj now in New
York. Xllth Dynasty.
8. Pectoral of Amenemhet III, from Dahshur, now
in Cairo. Xllth Dynasty „ 98
7. 9. Seti I adjusting the crown of the god Turn. Relief
in the temple at Abydos. XIXth Dynasty . „ 99
8. 10. Userhet with his family beneath the sycamore.
Painting from his tomb at Sheikh 'Abd el
Gurnah. XlXth Dynasty . . . . „ 102
9. ii. Ramdse acclaimed; from his tomb at Sheikh 'Abd
el Gurnah. XVIIIth Dynasty . , . 3, 103
10. 12. The Fox and the Goat.' Drawing on an ostracon
from D£r el Medinah. New Kingdom.
13. Acrobatic dancer. Sketch on an ostracon in Turin.
New Kingdom......M 104
11. 14. Head of Nefertiti (cast), from Tell el-'Amarnah.
XVIIIth Dynasty ...,.„ 105