When a squadron of chariots defiles before Pharaoh, one would declare that their wheels all ran in the self-same ruts, were it not that the body of the first chariot partly hides the horse by which the second chariot is drawn (fig.

170).

In these examples the people and objects are, either accidentally or naturally, placed so near together, that the anomaly does not strike one as too glaring.

In taking these liberties, the Egyptian artist but anticipated a contrivance adopted by the Greek sculptor of a later age.

Elsewhere, the Egyptian has occasionally approached nearer to truth of treatment.