Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians,: Including Their Private Life, Government, Laws, Arts, Manufactures, Religion and Early History; Derived from a Comparison of the Paintings, Sculptures, and Monuments Still Existing, with the Accounts of Ancient Authors, Volume 3John Murray, Albemarle Street., 1837 |
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18th dynasty acacia adopted already observed ancient Egyptians appear applied Arabs Beni Hassan birds blue boats border bottles boxes byblus carpenters carrying chariot chase chasseur colour cotton crocodile custom cyperus Cyperus papyrus desert Diod dogs Egypt and Thebes employed Ethiopia evident fish flax found at Thebes frequently gazelle glass glue gold Greeks ground Hassan Herod Herodotus hieroglyphics hippopotamus hues hyæna inch invention Julius Pollux kind known lake leather linen loom Lower Egypt manner manufacture mentioned metal mode modern mummy mummy cloths Museum Nile numerous occasion ornamental paintings paper papyrus piece plant Plin Pliny Plut porcelain present day preserved probably purpose represented Romans ropes sacred animals sails sculptures Sebennytic nome skill skins sometimes spear species specimens stalks stone Strabo supposed talents weight Tentyrites Thebaïd thongs threads tombs Upper Upper Egypt various vases Vide wood-cut warp wild wood wooden woof wound
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Page 179 - And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing : and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.
Page 315 - To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment ; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five changes of raiment.
Page 223 - In the paintings of the tombs greater licence was allowed in the representation of subjects relating to private life, the trades, or the manners and occupations of the people ; and some indication of perspective in the position of the figures may occasionally be observed : but the attempt was imperfect, and, probably, to an Egyptian eye, unpleasing ; for such is the force of habit, that even where nature is copied, a conventional style is sometimes preferred to a more accurate representation. In...
Page 278 - BC, consequently many years after the Egyptians had been acquainted with the art of vaulting ; and the reason of their preferring such a mode of construction probably arose from their calculating the great difficulty of repairing an injured arch in this position, and the consequences attending the decay of a single block ; nor can any one suppose, from the great superincumbent weight applied to 452.
Page 348 - Homer, in the Odyssey, describes the many valuable medicines given by Polydamna, the wife of Thonis, to Helen while in Egypt, " a country whose fertile soil produces an infinity of drugs, some salutary and some pernicious ; where each physician possesses knowledge above all other men.
Page 124 - ¿And he made the ephod of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen. 3 And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires...
Page 109 - The Egyptians, from a most remote era, were celebrated for their manufacture of linen and other cloths, and the produce of their looms was exported to, and eagerly purchased by, foreign nations. The fine linen, and embroidered work, the yarn, and woollen stuffs, of the upper and lower country are frequently mentioned, and were highly esteemed.
Page 186 - Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee.
Page 202 - These were accordingly the metals first known, and first applied to use. But iron, the most serviceable of all, and to which man is most indebted, is never discovered in its perfect form ; its gross and stubborn ore must feel twice the force of fire, and go through two laborious processes, before it...
Page 294 - They consisted of a leather bag, secured and fitted into a frame, from which a long pipe extended, for carrying the wind to the fire. They were worked by the feet, the operator standing upon them, with one under each foot, and pressing them alternately, while he pulled up each exhausted skin with a string he held in his hand.