The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . areso arranged as to give a gentle slope to the structure. The fancy wliich actuatedthe joiner in making such beds supposed that two benevolent lions had, oftheir own free will, stretched out their bodies to form the two sides of thecouch, the muzzles constituting the pillow, while the tails were curled up underthe feet of the sleeper.^ Many of the iieads given to the lions are so nobleand expressive, that they will well bear comparison with the granite statuesof these animals which Amenothes III. dedicated in his temple at Soleb.^ The
The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . areso arranged as to give a gentle slope to the structure. The fancy wliich actuatedthe joiner in making such beds supposed that two benevolent lions had, oftheir own free will, stretched out their bodies to form the two sides of thecouch, the muzzles constituting the pillow, while the tails were curled up underthe feet of the sleeper.^ Many of the iieads given to the lions are so nobleand expressive, that they will well bear comparison with the granite statuesof these animals which Amenothes III. dedicated in his temple at Soleb.^ The Drawn liy Fauchcr-Gudiii, from a ijUotogiaph by Lanzoue ; cl. PEitKOT-CimiEZ, Ilist. de IArtdans IAtUiquit^, vol. i. p. 300. Upon these funerary couches, see Maspero, Arch^uh/jie Egyptienne, pp. 277-2S0. Cf. the two lions heads in the Hofkjiann sale, Antiquit(fs Kijijptiennes, p. SO, Nos. 280, 281,and pis. xxiv., xxv. ; they belonged to a funeral couch, and not to a throne, as the couipilcr of thoCatalogue maintains. 536 THE CLOSE OF THE THEBAN other trades depended upon the proportion of their members to the rest of thecommunity for the estimation in which they were held. The masons, stone-cutters, and common labourers ^ furnished tlie most important contingent;among these ought also to be reckoned the royal servants—of whose functionswe should have been at a loss to guess the importance, if contemporary docu-ments had not made it clear—fishermen, hunters, laundresses, wood-cutters, gardeners, and water-carriers.^ Without reckoning the constant libations needed for the gods and the deceased, the -^^^.-?^ _^^«^,_^ workshops required a large -^^^•-te- I l t 1 ^^ quantity of drinking water for the men engaged inthem. In every gang ofworkmen, even in the presentday, two or three men areset apart to provide drinking-water for the rest; in somearid places, indeed, at a dis-tance from the river, such asthe Valley of the Kings, asmany water-carriers are re-quired as th
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