Saite work.] [Illustration: Fig.

207 .-- Colossus of Alexander II.] The new departure was of slow development.

Sculptors began by clothing the successors of Alexander in Egyptian garb and transforming them into Pharaohs, just as they had in olden time transformed the Hyksos and the Persians.

Works dating from the reigns of the first Ptolemies scarcely differ from those of the best Saite period, and it is only here and there that we detect traces of Greek influence.

Thus, the colossus of Alexander II., at Gizeh (fig.