Text Appearing Before Image: annot yisit the Museum will be found most useful. ANCIENT EGYPTIAN COSTUME Plate I. Plate I., which dates 700 B.C., is an exact copy of anEgyptian drawing. It will be noticed that the Egyptianmethod of representing the figure is a peculiar one. Amodern representation of the same type of dress isshown in Fig. 2, and the plan of cutting in Fig. 2a. Itshould be noted that this plan—namely, a tunic withbraces—is in some instances shown with the bracesbuttoned on each shoulder at the narrowest part. Thisillustration is given as a tj^e of Egyptian dress decora-tion, which would be either printed, painted, orembroidered on the garment. It might be consideredthat this type of dress more nearly approaches the skirtthan the tunic; but reaching, as it does, to the breast-line, and comparing various examples which, as it were,gradually merge into the sleeveless tunic which againmerges into the tunic with short sleeves, the presentclassification will be found to be the most convenient. PLATE I Text Appearing After Image: M.G.H. del A GODDESS ~FJ^W. pin«. ANCIENT EGYPTIAN COSTUME Plate II. Plate II., which dates 1700 b.c. also first century B.C.,is an exact copy of an Egyptian drawing of a womanwearing a species of tunic with braces (plan. Fig. 1).The striped decoration upon this tunic is suggestedby the lines of another type of Egyptian dress—namely,the drawn-up skirt. The origin of the decoration can be easily understood by areference to the drapery onPlate IX. In the originalof this drawing the figure isrepresented with a loftyhead-dress in addition to thefillet of ribbon and thegolden asp here shown, butfor the sake of getting thefigure on a scale largeenough to show clear detailsthe head-dress is omitted.The person represented issaid to be Cleopatra dressedas a ffoddess. Fig. 1 ^ancientegyptiana00hous
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