The least known flourished in Ethiopia, at the court of the half-civilised kings who resided at Meroe.

A group brought from Naga in 1882, and now in the Gizeh collection, shows the work of this school during the first century of our era (fig.

209).

A god and a queen, standing side by side, are roughly cut in a block of grey granite.

The work is coarse and heavy, but not without energy.