I should not be surprised if those statues of priests and priestesses wearing divine insignia, with which Hadrian adorned the Egyptian rooms of his villa at Tibur, might not be attributed to the artists of this hybrid school.

In those parts which were remote from the Delta, native art, being left to its own resources, languished, and slowly perished.

Nor was this because Greek models, or even Greek artists, were lacking.

In the Thebaid, in the Fayum, at Syene, I have both discovered and purchased statuettes and statues of Hellenic style, and of correct and careful execution.

One of these, from Coptos, is apparently a miniature replica of a Venus analogous to the Venus of Milo.