[Illustration: FIG. 211.--Side view of the same group. Drawn by Bourgoin.] Finally, Devéria and De Rougé have suggested that a work of the same school is to be recognized in the fragment of a statuette of green basalt, which belongs to the Louvre and is figured upon page 237.[217] They point to similarities of feature and of race characteristics. The face of the Louvre statuette has a truculence of expression not unlike that of the Tanite monuments, while the workmanship is purely Egyptian and of the best quality; the flexibility of body, which is one of the most constant qualities in the productions of the first Theban Empire, being especially characteristic. The king represented wears the _klaft_ with the _uræus_ in front of it; his _schenti_ is finely pleated and a dagger with its handle carved into the shape of a hawk's head is thrust into his girdle. The support at the back has, unfortunately, been left without the usual inscription and we have no means of ascertaining the age of the fragment beyond the style, the workmanship, and the very peculiar physiognomy. Devéria suggests that it preserves the features of one of the shepherd kings, some of whose images Mariette thought he had discovered at Tanis and in the Fayoum.[218] [217] DEVÉRIA, _Lettre à M. Aug. Mariette_, p. 258.--PIERRET, _Catalogue de la Salle Historique_, No. 6. [218] M. FR. LENORMANT (_Bulletino della Commissione Archeologica di Roma_, fifth year, January to June, 1877) believes that he has discovered in one of the Roman museums another monument belonging to the same period and to the same artistic group. [Illustration: FIG. 212.--Upper part of a royal statue. Grey granite. Boulak. Drawn by G. Bénédite.] It cannot be denied that there are many striking points of resemblance between the different works which we have here brought together. Mariette laid great stress upon what he regarded as one of his most important discoveries. This is his definition of the type which the Egyptian artist set himself to reproduce with his habitual exactness: "The eyes are small, the nose vigorous, arched, and flat at the end, the cheeks are large and bony, and the mouth is remarkable for the way in which its extremities are drawn down. The face as a whole is in harmony with the harshness of its separate features, and the matted hair in which the head seems to be sunk adds to the singularity of its appearance."[219] [219] _Lettres à M. de Rougé sur les Fouilles de Tanis_, p. 105. (_Revue Archéologique._) [Illustration: FIG. 213.--Fragmentary statuette of a king; height seven inches. Drawn by Saint-Elme Gautier.]