That of Pedishashi (fig.

205) has an expression of youth and intelligent gentleness such as we seldom meet with from an Egyptian hand.

Other heads, on the contrary, are remarkable for their almost brutal frankness of treatment.

In the small head of a scribe (fig.

206), lately purchased for the Louvre, and in another belonging to Prince Ibrahim at Cairo, the wrinkled brow, the crow's-feet at the corners of the eyes, the hard lines about the mouth, and the knobs upon the skull, are brought out with scrupulous fidelity.