Saite work.] This we know from the bas-reliefs.

But the Memphite sculptors, deeming the two last ungraceful, excluded them from the domain of art, and rarely, if ever, reproduced them.

The "Cross-legged Scribe" of the Louvre and the "Kneeling Scribe" of Gizeh show with what success they could employ the two first.

The third was neglected (doubtless for the same reason) by the Theban sculptors.

The fourth began to be currently adopted about the time of the Eighteenth Dynasty.
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