The bust is well developed, but the trunk is out of proportion with the rest of his person.

The artist has done his best to disguise the lower limbs under a fine white tunic; but one feels that it is too long for the little man's arms and legs.
[Illustration: Fig.

195 .-- The dwarf Nemhotep, Old Empire.] [Illustration: Fig.

196 .-- One of the Tanis Sphinxes.] The thighs could have existed only in a rudimentary form, and Nemhotep, standing as best he can upon his misshapen feet, seems to be off his balance, and ready to fall forward upon his face.

It would be difficult to find another work of art in which the characteristics of dwarfdom are more cleverly reproduced.
The sculpture of the first Theban empire is in close connection with that of Memphis.