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γυμναί. The Egyptians never represented women in statues quite naked; but the linen fabrics were so fine and clinging as to be transparent. For such a dress cf. figure in Erman, E. p. 214, and Maspero, C. P. p. 124; Maspero adds in a note that the linen fabrics in the museum at Cairo quite confirm the tradition (cf. the ‘Coae vestes’ of the Romans).

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