Note 53 — V.

Mr. Flinders Petrie has just discovered and sent to Mr. Holly, of Trinity, Cambridge, the well-known traveller, a wall-painting of a beautiful woman, excavated by the Egypt Exploration Society, from the ruined site of the Temple of Aphrodite in Naucratis. Mr. Holly, in an affecting letter to the Academy, states that he recognises in this picture “an admirable though somewhat archaic portrait of She.” There can thus be little or no doubt that She was Rhodopis, and therefore several hundred years older than she said. But few will blame her for being anxious not to claim her full age.