description. One of these,
preserved in the "Hood Papyrus" in the British Museum, has
been published and translated by Maspero, in _Etudes
Egyptiennes,_ vol. ii. pp. 1-66; another and more complete
copy, discovered in 1890, is in the possession of M.
Golenischeff. The other list, also in the British Museum,
was published by Prof. Petrie in a memoir of _The Egypt
Exploration Fund _; in this latter the names and titles are
intermingled with various other matter. To these two works
may be added the lists of professions and trades to be found
_passim_ on the monuments, and which have been commented on
by Brugsch.

His toilet alone gave employment to a score of different trades. There
were royal barbers, who had the privilege of shaving his head and chin;
hairdressers who made, curled, and put on his black or blue wigs and
adjusted the diadems to them; there were manicurists who pared and
polished his nails, perfumers who prepared the scented oils and pomades
for the anointing of his body, the kohl for blackening his eyelids, the
_rouge_ for spreading on his lips and cheeks. His wardrobe required a
whole troop of shoemakers, belt-makers, and tailors, some of whom had
the care of stuffs in the piece, others presided over the body-linen,
while others took charge of his garments, comprising long or short,
transparent or thick petticoats, fitting tightly to the hips or cut with
ample fulness, draped mantles and flowing pelisses. Side by side
with these officials, the laundresses plied their trade, which was an
important one among a people devoted to white, and in whose estimation
want of cleanliness in dress entailed religious impurity. Like the
fellahin of the present time, they took their linen daily to wash in
the river; they rinsed, starched, smoothed, and pleated it without
intermission to supply the incessant demands of Pharaoh and his family.*

* The "royal laundrymen" and their chiefs are mentioned in
the Conte des deux freres under the XIXth dynasty, as well
as their laundries on the banks of the Nile.

[Illustration: 051.jpg MEN AND WOMEN SINGERS, FLUTE-PLAYERS, HARPISTS,
AND DANCERS, FROM THE TOMB OF TI]

Drawn by Faucher-Gudin from a squeeze taken at Saqqara in
1878 by Mariette

The task of those set over the jewels was no easy one, when we consider
the enormous variety of necklaces, bracelets, rings, earrings, and
sceptres of ri