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Egyptian art was based entirely on the concept of portraying each piece of a thing (a human figure, a table, a garden, a building and so on) as seen from its most recognisable angle.
So a table would be shown with the top seen from above, but with the legs seen from the side. A garden would be seen in plan (as if from directly above), but the trees would be shown as if you are looking at them from the side.
The same principle applies to the human figure: the head is most often shown in profile (seen from the side), the shoulders as if seen from the front, the arms and legs are seen from the side. This did not mean that any real Egyptian people stood or walked like that - it was simply artistic convention to make clear what was being shown.
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