107 .-- Wall of a chamber at Denderah, to show the arrangement of the tableaux.] As we come down to later times, these tableaux are multiplied, and under the Greeks and Romans they become so numerous that the smallest wall contained not less than four (fig.

107), five, six, or even eight registers.

The principal figures are, as it were, compressed, so as to occupy less room, and all the intermediate space is crowded with thousands of tiny hieroglyphs.

The gods and kings are no longer portraits of the reigning sovereign, but mere conventional types without vigour or life.

As for the secondary figures and accessories, the sculptor's only care is to crowd in as many as possible.