ABSTRACT
The little lady Toui, who entered the Louvre last year, was in her lifetime a singer in the service of Amon. The statuette that represents her may deservedly rank as one of the best works which have recently emerged from Theban soil. It is a miniature statue of the double shut up in the tombs of the Memphian period. All the museums in Europe have similar ones, and through Champollion, the Louvre possessed the lady Na who sustains comparison very well with her new comrade. The greater number belonged to one of the funerary professions, guardians of mummies, decorators of hypogeums, hewers of tombs, sacristans or priests of a low order employed in the minor offices of burials or commemorative rites with the routine of their craft produced work of real value the statuettes of the lady Toui, of the little girl and the woman in the Turin Museum. The Egyptians were admirable in observation and full of satirical humour.
