ABSTRACT
It has long been a debatable question if the Egyptian statues of kings and private individuals can be regarded as faithful portraits or as merely approximate to their originals. The profile of Setoui I photographed in his coffin would coincide line for line with that of his bas-reliefs of Karnak or Thinis-Abydos. Out of a hundred baskets of debris collected by the American's, they found at most, besides five or six intact heads, enough to put together, almost completely, two alabaster statues. The best of the heads is in the Cairo Museum, and it has sufficient resemblance to our statuette for authors to have no hesitation in recognizing Mycerinus. He always has a goddess on his right, a Hathor moulded in the sleeveless smock open on the chest. The two Chephrn of the Cairo Museum were not long ago alone in suggesting to us the conviction that the Memphian times yielded nothing in this matter of resemblance.
