A Guide to the Antiquities of Upper Egypt: From Abydos to the Sudan FrontierMacmillan, 1910 - 594 pages |
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... IInd of the XXIst dynasty is stated to have sent a statue of a great Libyan chieftain named Namlot to be erected at Abydos . XXXth Inscriptions of Kings Takeloth Ist and IInd have been found The in the Thinite enclosure . During the ...
... IInd of the XXIst dynasty is stated to have sent a statue of a great Libyan chieftain named Namlot to be erected at Abydos . XXXth Inscriptions of Kings Takeloth Ist and IInd have been found The in the Thinite enclosure . During the ...
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... IInd embraced by the principal gods of Egypt . On the outer walls of the main temple there is at the east end a long inscription which tells how Rameses IInd came to Abydos , and , finding the temple unfinished , decided to continue the ...
... IInd embraced by the principal gods of Egypt . On the outer walls of the main temple there is at the east end a long inscription which tells how Rameses IInd came to Abydos , and , finding the temple unfinished , decided to continue the ...
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... IInd , reading from a papyrus ; and before them in two rows are the cartouches of a large number of the Pharaohs of Egypt , beginning with Mena and ending with him- self . The third row of cartouches is a repetition of his own names ...
... IInd , reading from a papyrus ; and before them in two rows are the cartouches of a large number of the Pharaohs of Egypt , beginning with Mena and ending with him- self . The third row of cartouches is a repetition of his own names ...
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... IIND The temple of Rameses IInd , which was erected early in that king's reign , lies a short distance to the north - west of that of Sety Ist . It is very much ruined , and only the lower parts of the walls and the bases of the pillars ...
... IIND The temple of Rameses IInd , which was erected early in that king's reign , lies a short distance to the north - west of that of Sety Ist . It is very much ruined , and only the lower parts of the walls and the bases of the pillars ...
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... IInd , to himself , to the Union , and to Hathor , the goddess of birth and of maternity , are evidently in- tended to demonstrate the fact of the succession of Rameses IInd to the divine rights of his father ; and they are thus a ...
... IInd , to himself , to the Union , and to Hathor , the goddess of birth and of maternity , are evidently in- tended to demonstrate the fact of the succession of Rameses IInd to the divine rights of his father ; and they are thus a ...
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Abydos Akhnaton Amen Amen-Ra Amenhotep IIIrd ancient Anuket Aswân barque building built cartouches Cataract cemeteries chamber columns court damaged decorated Dendereh Dêr door doorway east wall Edfu Egypt Egyptian Elephantine enters entrance Farther figure Forecourt funeral gateway goddess gods granite Harmachis Hathor Hatshepsut Horemheb Horus Hypostyle Hall inscription Isis Kâb Karnak Khnum Khonsu king is seen king's leads Lower Nubia Luxor Maam Medinet Habu MORTUARY CHAPEL mortuary temple mummy Nekheb Nephthys north wall offerings Ombo Osiris paintings passes Pharaoh Philæ pillars present priests Prince Ptah Ptolemy pylon quarries queen Rameses IInd reign reliefs show represented river rock Roman roof ruins sacred barque sanctuary Satet seated Sebek Sekhmet Sennefer Senusert Sety showing the king shown shrine south end south wall stands statue stele stone Thebes Thothmes IIIrd Thothmes IVth tomb town Unnefer vestibule visitor wall the king west wall wife worshipping XVIIIth dynasty
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Page 178 - I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: // Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. // Near them, on the sand, / Half sunk, / a shattered visage lies, / whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, / Tell that its sculptor / well those passions read / Which yet survive, / stamped on these lifeless things, / The hand that mocked them, / and the heart that fed: // And on the pedestal / these words...
Page 97 - And he took away the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king's house; he even took away all: and he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
Page 69 - Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea? 'Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers.
Page 97 - And it came .to pass, that, in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had transgressed against the LORD, with twelve hundred chariots, and threescore thousand horsemen : and the people were without number that came with him. out of Egypt; the Lubims, the Sukkiims, and the Ethiopians. And he took the fenced cities which pertained to Judah, and came to Jerusalem.
Page 376 - The Nile greeted me in every valley; None was hungry in my years, none thirsted then; One dwelt (in peace) through that which I did; conversing concerning me. All that I commanded was correct. I captured lions, I took crocodiles, I seized the people of Wawat, I captured the people of Mazoi.
Page 99 - ... and the administration of the Pharaoh's government under the Empire, beside the best known representations in color of the peoples and products of Punt, Keftyew, Retenu, and Nubia. 664. Incidentally, Rekhmire also throws light upon the character of Thutmose III. After modestly remarking of himself that "there was nothing of which he was ignorant in heaven, in earth, (or) in any quarter of the nether world;" b and again: "/ was a noble, second to the king...
Page 462 - The vow of Verecundus the soldier, and his most pious parents, and Gaius his little brother, and the rest of his brethren.
Page 196 - It was so long since any Egyptians had been seen in Punt that the Egyptians represented the Puntites as crying out, ' Why have ye come hither unto this land, which the people (of Egypt) know not?
Page 97 - Oh, ye who see my monument in the course of years, and converse of what I have done, beware of saying, ' I know not, I know not, why these things were done "... Verily the two great obelisks that my majesty has wrought with electrum, they are for my father Amen, to the end that my name should remain established in this temple for ever and ever.
Page 63 - Where, in Egyptian Thebes, the heaps of precious ingots gleam, The hundred-gated Thebes, where twice ten score in martial state Of valiant men with steeds and cars march through each massy gate.