Every Egyptian work of art was created in accordance with certain pictural rules,  called Frontalism. The heads and the feet are always depicted in profile, while the body – en face. A stylized eye is typical of the Egyptian Art. The legs usually follow the head axis so that they are perpendicular to the body. The angle between the backgound and the personages suggests the figurine take a formal, stiff, solemn positions, the faces should be calm and serene, and very often turned towards the source of light (usually the sky or the sun) or knowledge. The rules differed for the figurine was the main personage (as well as at the ritual works), the other persons or the animals. 

At this particular picture we could notice the difference between the body of a Pharaoh, depicted in a very stylized manner, symbol of the material life and the manner of portraying of the ornaments, symbolizing spiritual values. He is holding the two symbols of the united Egypt – the high Egypt and the low Egypt in his right hand, and in his left hand – the cross of Ank, the symbol of life, of reconciliation of the sky (the cercle) and the earth (the crossing of verticality and horizontality). It’s evident that his left hand is parallel to the axis top-bottom, i.e. sky-earth, while the right hand forms an angle, his hand over his heart (a prompt to understand).

The principal personage at this picture is obviously too big compared to the other personages of the scene, he’s a representative of the nobility for he is depicted in accordance to the rules described above (face is portrayed in profile, shoulders – en face, feet are on the same axis as the head, uphold position of the body, dark colours, used as a rule to depict men); his wife is near him, but she’s smaller (masculine domination) – it corresponds to the same rule of uprightness. The servants are portrayed in the same manner as the nobility, the animals are  depicted in the usual way. Whereas  the personages are stylized and simplified. The depiction of the animals (birds and fishes) are detailed enough to define the species.

And the last example, illustrating the difference of depicting of a noble woman (face is portrayed in profile, shoulders – en face, uphold position of the body) and the servant, represented in the usual way, bearing some  womanly curves.