The Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians: Including Their Private Life, Government, Laws, Arts, Manufactures, Religion, Agriculture and Early History, Volume 2John Murray, 1847 - 483 pages |
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Common terms and phrases
according adopted Alabastron Alexandria Amasis appear Arabic bastinado Beni Hassan Bocchoris bricks capital chief Conf Copt court custom dancing Diod Diodor door double pipe Egyp Egyptians employed father flute found at Thebes frequently garden gods grain granaries Greeks ground guitar hand harp Heptanomis Herculaneum Herodotus hieratic hieroglyphic honour Horus instrument introduced Jews judges justice king labour land laws Lower Egypt lyre mentioned ments military mode modern Egypt modern Egyptians monarch Moslems Nile nomarch nomes offence ornamented painted party persons Pharaoh Plin Plutarch præfects present day priests probably Ptolemy punishment received reign Remeses represented Romans rooms sacred Salt's Collection says sculptures side similar sistrum slaves sometimes stone Strabo strings suppose tank temple Thebaïd Thebes tion tombs town trees upper vases Vide plate Vide references Vide suprà Vide wood-cut villas vineyard wall wine women wooden
Popular passages
Page 374 - And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness: And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.
Page 147 - My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill : and he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein : and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
Page 374 - But the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the Lord, to make an atonement with him, and to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness.
Page 315 - And David and all the house of Israel played before the Lord on all manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals.
Page 409 - Come on therefore, let us enjoy the good things that are present, and let us speedily use the creatures like as in youth. Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments; and let no flower of the spring pass by us; let us crown ourselves with rosebuds before they be withered...
Page 310 - And Miriam, the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously : the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Page 63 - And yet indeed she is my sister ; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother ; and she became my wife.
Page 296 - The first figure is an Egyptian scribe, who presents an account of their arrival to a person seated, the owner of the tomb, and one of the principal officers of the reigning Pharaoh. The next, also an Egyptian, ushers them into his presence ; and two advance bringing presents, the wild goat or ibex and the gazelle, the productions of their country.
Page 336 - Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: let the children of Zion be joyful in their King. 3 Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp.
Page 159 - Still, however," says Athenaeus, "it is inferior to the Teniotic, a wine which receives its name from a place called Tenia, where it is produced. Its colour is pale and white, and there is such a degree of richness in it, that, when mixed with water, it seems gradually to be diluted, much in the same way as Attic honey when a voi,, i.