Note 23 — IV SKHEMKA, HIS WIFE AND SON A GROUP FOUND AT MEMPHIS (The Louvre)

Here are some references to plates in Lepsius where the husband and wife are represented side by side in different positions. The woman of low stature crouches behind her seated husband (“Denkmäler,” ii., 71b); the wife and husband, both of heroic stature, are seated on the same armchair, and the wife puts her right arm round her husband’s neck (“Denkmäler,” ii., 10b, 24, 25b, 41b, 42a-b, 75a, etc.); the wife of low stature stands in front of her husband, who is of heroic stature (“Denkmäler,” ii., 38b); she stands behind him and puts her arm round his left arm (“Denkmäler,” ii., 27, 33a), or she puts her arm round his waist (“Denkmäler,” ii., 38a); and lastly, the husband and wife, of the same stature, are standing, the wife behind her husband and putting her arm round his neck (“Denkmäler,” ii., 13, 20–1, 29b, 32, 34b, 40b, 43b, 46, 58a, 59b), or separated from him (“Denkmäler,” ii., 73, etc.).