A History of Egypt from the Earliest Times to the XVIth DynastyC. Scribner's Sons, 1897 - 262 pages |
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Abydos adoring alabaster altar Amenemhat Amenemhat III ankh Antef Apepa appears Assa Aswan bear belong Beni Hasan black granite blocks Bubastis built cartouche carved chamber coffin coregency cubits cylinders Dahshur dated desert Egypt Egyptian Elephantine F.P. Coll Fayum Gebelen Ghizeh Museum Gizeh Hammamat Hat-nub hotep Hyksos Illahun inscription IVth ka'ra Kahun Karnak Khafra Khety Khufu Khyan king king's known Koptos land Louvre Manetho Medum Memphis Mena Menkaura Mentuhotep Mentuhotep III monuments Nefer Neferhotep Nile nome Nubia obelisk passage Pepy period priest probably Ptah pyramid quarry queen Ra kha race Ramessu records red granite reign remains Rock tablet royal rulers Sahura Sakkara sarcophagus scarabs Sebek Sebekhotep Semneh shows side Sneferu Sphinx statue statuette stele stone Tahutmes Tanis taui temple Teta Thebes throne tomb Turin papyrus Usertesen vases Wady Maghara Westcar papyrus XIIIth XIIth dynasty XIVth XVIth
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Page 232 - Beon, for forty-four years; after him reigned another, called Apachnas, thirty-six years and seven months ; after him Apophis reigned sixty-one years, and then Janias fifty years and one month ; after all these reigned Assis forty-nine years and two months. And these six were the first rulers among them, who were all along making war with the Egyptians, and were very desirous gradually to destroy them to the very roots.
Page 40 - The squareness and level of the base is brilliantly true, the average error being less than a ten-thousandth of the side in equality, in squareness, and in level.
Page 130 - Examined on that day, it was found entire, the thieves not having been able to penetrate into it. PAGE III. 1 The monument of King RA-SEKHEM-SESHET-TAUI, son of the Sun, SEBAK-EM-SAU-EF. 2 It was found that the thieves had violated it by undermining the chamber of the...
Page 233 - Thebais, and of the other provinces of Egypt, made an insurrection against the Shepherds, and that a long and mighty war was carried on between them, till the Shepherds were overcome by a king whose name was...
Page 161 - I oppress, not a farmer did I oppose, not a herdsman did I hinder. There was not a foreman of five from whom I took his men for the works. There was not a pauper around me, there was not a hungry man in my time. When there came years of famine, I arose. I ploughed all the fields of the Oryx nome, to its southern and its northern boundaries. I made its inhabitants live, making provision for them ; there was not a hungry man in it, and I gave to the widow as to her that had FIG. 95.— Use1tesen I....
Page 232 - So when they had gotten those that governed us under their power, they afterwards burnt down our cities, and demolished the temples of the gods, and used all the inhabitants after a most barbarous manner ; nay, some they slew, and led their children and their wives into slavery.
Page 233 - Syria; but that as they were in fear of the Assyrians, who had then the dominion over Asia, they built a city in that country which is now called Judea, and that large enough to contain this great number of men, and called it Jerusalem.
Page 233 - Alisphragmuthosis. endeavoured to force them by a siege, and beleaguered the face with a body of four hundred and eighty thousand men ; but at the moment when he despaired of reducing them by siege, they agreed to a capitulation, that they would leave Egypt, and should be permitted to go out without molestation wheresoever they pleased. And according to this stipulation, they departed from Egypt with all their families and effects, in number not less than two hundred and forty thousand, and bent...
Page 231 - In his time it came to pass, I know not how, that God was displeased with us ; and there came up from the East in a strange manner men of an ignoble race, who had the confidence to invade our country, and easily subdued it by their power without a battle.
Page 231 - I know not how, that God was displeased with us, and there came up from the East in a strange manner men of an ignoble race, who had the confidence to invade our country, and easily subdued it by their power without a battle. And when they had our rulers in their hands they burnt our cities, and demolished the temples of the gods, and inflicted every kind of barbarity upon • Lepsius, op.