But except at Abydos, El Kab, Asuan, and some two or three other places, the provincial art of ancient Egypt is so little known to us that I dare not lay too much stress upon this hypothesis.

Whatever the origin of the Tanite School, it continued to exist long after the expulsion of the Hyksos invaders, since one of its best examples, a group representing the Nile of the North and the Nile of the South, bearing trays laden with flowers and fish, was consecrated by Pisebkhanu of the Twenty-first Dynasty.
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197 .-- Bas-relief head of Seti I.] [Illustration: Fig.

198 .-- The god Amen, and Horemheb.] [Illustration: Fig.

199 .-- Head of a Queen, Eighteenth Dynasty.] The first three dynasties of the New Empire[48] have bequeathed us more monuments than all the others put together.