Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians: Including Their Private Life, Government, Laws, Arts, Manufacturers, Religion and Early History : Derived from a Comparison of the Painting, Sculptures and Monuments Still Existing with the Accounts of Ancient Authors, Volume 3

Murray, 1837 - 404 pages

CHAPTER VIII	1

Difficulty now experienced in cutting Granite Erroneous	7

They often divided into Parties The use of the Noose	15

Diodoruss Account of the Mode of working the Mines	20

The Ichneumon its Hostility to Serpents Thence vene	30

This could not be used for cutting the Stone itself Bronze	39

Mode of catching Ducks in Ponds Birds chiefly caught	44

List of the Birds most easily recognised in the Paintings	51

Having cleared for Action the Rowers pulled and endea	202

Cleanliness	207

The Use of Tin at a very early Period	211

Early Manufacture of gold Ornaments Shield of Achilles	225

Gilding Gold Leaf at first thick Some thick Leaf con	234

Principle of the large Egyptian Scales No Steelyard	240

Skill in compounding Metals	247

Defeat them Their Plaustra or Carts The King pass	252

Shore the Fish sent off	57

The Abundance of Fish The Lake Maris	63

They went in Boats with a Party of Friends to the Jungles	69

Use of its Hide Corbag Whips used in former Times	72

Fall of Egyptian Art The Persian Invasion	88

Fineness of Egyptian Nets Plinys Account of them	127

Knowledge of Chemistry Spinning	133

Wigs how made Found at Thebes and preserved in	136

Plinys Description of the Process Combs for cleansing	139

Nets Nettingneedles Sieves	145

Papyrus superseded by Parchment Monopoly of the	151

Boxes of various Forms Veneered and painted	178

Palanquins and Canopies of Wood	181

These Boats of Burden far better built than Herodotus	187

Model of a Boat at Berlin showing the Position of	198

Blades	253

No Change in Character after the Roman Conquest merely	267

No Life in Egyptian Statues Certain Postures	274

The Attack of a Fleet on a Lake or Sea Offerings	296

Dogs not favoured by the modern Egyptians Cats well	302

Fresh Impulse given to Art by the Kings of the 26th	306

Sandstone of Silsilis afterwards used and preferred	323

Statue of Remeses at the Memnonium Monolith of Saïs	330

Shaving the Beard and Head	353

Barbers When introduced at Rome Fondness of	359

Various Kinds of Sandals	366

Pins and Needles	383

Bodies	390

Its complete Formula Contained sometimes a good Wish	396

Title	Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians: Including Their Private Life, Government, Laws, Arts, Manufacturers, Religion and Early History : Derived from a Comparison of the Painting, Sculptures and Monuments Still Existing with the Accounts of Ancient Authors, Volume 3 Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians: Including Their Private Life, Government, Laws, Arts, Manufacturers, Religion and Early History : Derived from a Comparison of the Painting, Sculptures and Monuments Still Existing with the Accounts of Ancient Authors, John Gardner Wilkinson
Author	John Gardner Wilkinson
Publisher	Murray, 1837
Original from	the Bavarian State Library
Digitized	20 Feb 2009
Length	404 pages

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