The head covering, wliicli is sometimes very tall and slender,is always supported at the back for nearly the whole of its heightand width. The figure itself is supported either at the back or theside by a pier of varying thickness. . . . ^ The stone is leftbetween the two legs when one is thrust… … Fig. 255.—P.iinting at Thebes (Champollion, pi. iS6). instrument, by which the necessary holes could have been madewithout dangerous shocks, was certainly unknown to the Egyptians.They could only have removed the masses in question by thestriking processes we have mentioned, processes which…
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![An illustration from Catalogue des monuments et inscriptions de l'Égypte antique / publié sous les auspices de S.A. Abbas II Helmi par la direction générale du Service des antiquités [de l'Égypte] ; par J. de Morgan, U. Bouriant, G. Legrain, G. Jéquier, A. Barsanti (1894)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-cataloguedesmonu22egyp-24-30.webp)
