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Page 5
This wonderful papyrus measures 135 feet by 18 inches, and was found in a box
in the temple at Medinet Habu, built by Rameses III. ; it is now in the British
Museum. IV. Decrees, Scarabs, Statues of Kings and Private Persons are fruitful ...
This wonderful papyrus measures 135 feet by 18 inches, and was found in a box
in the temple at Medinet Habu, built by Rameses III. ; it is now in the British
Museum. IV. Decrees, Scarabs, Statues of Kings and Private Persons are fruitful ...
Page 45
At the point of confluence it measures about 600 yards across, a little farther up it
is from three to four miles wide, and during the inundation the distance from side
to side is twenty-one miles. In an ordinary season it is about 24 feet deep.
At the point of confluence it measures about 600 yards across, a little farther up it
is from three to four miles wide, and during the inundation the distance from side
to side is twenty-one miles. In an ordinary season it is about 24 feet deep.
Page 47
According to Sir Gardner Wilkinson {Ancient Egypt, II., 431), the cubit measures of
the Nilometers ought, after certain periods, to be raised proportionately if we wish
to arrive at great accuracy in the measurement of the waters. The level of the ...
According to Sir Gardner Wilkinson {Ancient Egypt, II., 431), the cubit measures of
the Nilometers ought, after certain periods, to be raised proportionately if we wish
to arrive at great accuracy in the measurement of the waters. The level of the ...
Page 51
The longest known is the great Harris papyrus, No. i; it measures 135 feet by 18
inches. The scribe wrote upon the papyrus with reeds, and the inks were
principally made of vegetable colour. Black and red are the commonest colours
used, but ...
The longest known is the great Harris papyrus, No. i; it measures 135 feet by 18
inches. The scribe wrote upon the papyrus with reeds, and the inks were
principally made of vegetable colour. Black and red are the commonest colours
used, but ...
Page 88
For having privily taken the measure of Osiris's body, he caused a chest to be
made exactly of the same size with it, as beautiful as might be, and set off with all
the ornaments of art. This chest he brought into his banqueting room ; where after
it ...
For having privily taken the measure of Osiris's body, he caused a chest to be
made exactly of the same size with it, as beautiful as might be, and set off with all
the ornaments of art. This chest he brought into his banqueting room ; where after
it ...
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Page 35 - And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened ; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victual.
Page 81 - Hail to thee, maker of all beings, Lord of law, father of the gods ; maker of men, creator of beasts ; Lord of grains, making food for the beast of the field The One alone without a second King alone, single among the gods ; of many names, unknown is their number.
Page 90 - Isis set out once more in search of the scattered members of her husband's body, using a boat made of the papyrus rush in order the more easily to pass through the lower and fenny parts of the country.
Page 100 - If these writings of the Greeks agree with the book of God, they are useless, and need not be preserved • if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be de stroyed.
Page 164 - The rooms above ground I myself went through and saw, and relate from personal inspection. But the underground rooms I only know from report ; for the Egyptians who have charge of the building would, on no account, show me them, saying, that there were the sepulchres of the kings who originally built this labyrinth, and of the sacred crocodiles. I can therefore only relate what I have...
Page 138 - ... ten years were expended, and in forming the subterraneous apartments on the hill, on which the pyramids stand, which he had made as a burial vault for himself, in an island, formed by draining a canal from the Nile.
Page 193 - ... there was no city under the sun so ' adorned with so many and stately monuments of gold, silver, and ' ivory, and multitudes of colossi and obelisks, cut out of one entire 'stone.
Page vii - It is for this reason that no attempt has been made to run logs in the river.
Page 139 - Cheops reached such a degree of infamy, that being in want of money, he prostituted his own daughter in a brothel, and ordered her to extort, they did not say how much ; but she exacted a certain sum of money, privately, as much as her father ordered her ; and contrived to leave a monument of herself, and asked every one that came in to her to give her a stone towards the edifice she designed : of these stones they said the pyramid was built that stands in the middle of the three, before the great...
Page 138 - And they worked to the number of a hundred thousand men at a time, each party during three months. The time during which the people were thus harassed by toil lasted ten years on the road which they constructed...
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| Title | The Nile: Notes for Travellers in Egypt |
| Author | Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge |
| Publisher | T. Cook & Son (Egypt) Limited, 1890 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 7 Jun 2007 |
| Length | 311 pages |
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