ABSTRACT
The Pharaohs are usually seated with the head erect. For it has been discovered that in the time of Amenophis II and Amenophis III, the artists for some years employed pink tones deduced from Taas colour. He had scarcely ascended the throne before he wished officially to replace the worship of Amon by that of the solar disk, whose Egyptian name, Aton. When he was dead, Aton returned into obscurity, his city was deserted, and the name of the king, proscribed by sacerdotal hatred, vanished with the buildings on which it had been engraved. The Amenophis IV of the Louvre does honour to their talent; it is the more valuable since their works, treated with great ferocity by the Theban reaction, have become very rare. The necropolis of El-Amarna has told the authors, the names of two of the sculptors who helped to adorn the city during its brief existence, but very few statues unique work of its kind.
