205 .-- Squatting statue of Pedishashi.

Saite work.] It may be that this position was not in fashion among the moneyed classes, which alone could afford to order statues; or it may be that the artists themselves objected to an attitude which caused their sitters to look like square parcels with a human head on the top.

The sculptors of the Saite period did not inherit that repugnance.

They have at all events combined the action of the limbs in such wise as may least offend the eye, and the position almost ceases to be ungraceful.

The heads also are modelled to such perfection that they make up for many shortcomings.