ABSTRACT
Skhemka's tomb, discovered by Mariette during the excavations of the Serapeum, furnished three pretty statues to the Louvre. The pretty painted bas-relief of the tomb of Seti I in the Louvre showed in large the arrangement of the glass beads on the stuff. It is often to be found in turning over the plates of Lepsius's fine work. He shows us Skhemka, Ati, and Knom grouped as they were every day: and what is conventional in his work is the disproportion in stature between the husband and wife, and between the mother and son. In all the tombs of every period, the master of the hypogeum is generally of the height of the wall, while servants, friends, sons, and wives are only of the height of one of the rows. In Egyptian theology, wife was as indispensable to the man after as during life, and she is represented by his side on the walls of his tomb.
