ABSTRACT
Khnoumhotpou is the only dwarf that has come to light who is a nobleman. The Pharaohs and the princes of their court bestowed same affection on these deformed creatures as did Christian or Mussulman kings in medival times. We know from the pictures of Beni-Hassan that two of them belonged to prince of Minieh's suite. Khnoumhotpou who dwelt in hypogeum of Saqqarah might not be a different being from the Khnoumhotpou who walked through the streets of Memphis. Given the fine proportions of Ti or Rnofir, the proud bearing and haughty mien of the Cheikh-el-Beled, even the more common type of the Crouching Scribe, he would not have known what to do. A body of stone identical at all points with the body of flesh was what the Egyptian demanded, and that is exactly what the sculptor fashioned for the little Khnoumhotpou. The unknown master whose work we have at Boulaq proceeded in exactly same manner as a modern sculptor.
