A Guide to the Antiquities of Upper Egypt: From Abydos to the Sudan FrontierMacmillan, 1910 - 594 pages |
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... and augmented by the study of the handful of pertinent books which alone could be carried ; and there is no antiquity or ancient site , however small , here recorded which has not been personally seen and examined vii.
... and augmented by the study of the handful of pertinent books which alone could be carried ; and there is no antiquity or ancient site , however small , here recorded which has not been personally seen and examined vii.
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... carried out by a certain Menthuhotep , who says , “ I conducted the work in the temple , I built the god's house , dug the sacred lake , and built the well . " He also built the sacred barge of the god , erected altars adorned with ...
... carried out by a certain Menthuhotep , who says , “ I conducted the work in the temple , I built the god's house , dug the sacred lake , and built the well . " He also built the sacred barge of the god , erected altars adorned with ...
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... carried to the supposed tomb of Osiris in the western desert . Here a mimic battle was fought , and very possibly " the slaying of the enemies " was represented by actual human sacri- fices . The sacred barque was then carried around ...
... carried to the supposed tomb of Osiris in the western desert . Here a mimic battle was fought , and very possibly " the slaying of the enemies " was represented by actual human sacri- fices . The sacred barque was then carried around ...
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... carried out he visited Abydos in state , sailing up the canal which connected the town with the Nile . In his fourth year he issued a decree regulating the boundaries of the necropolis , and ordering all trespassers to be branded . The ...
... carried out he visited Abydos in state , sailing up the canal which connected the town with the Nile . In his fourth year he issued a decree regulating the boundaries of the necropolis , and ordering all trespassers to be branded . The ...
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... carried by three hawk - headed beings called " The Spirits of Pe " ( a city in the Delta ) , and three jackal - headed beings called " The Spirits of Nekhen , ” i.e. Kôm el Ahmar ( p . 307 ) . These two cities were the archaic capitals ...
... carried by three hawk - headed beings called " The Spirits of Pe " ( a city in the Delta ) , and three jackal - headed beings called " The Spirits of Nekhen , ” i.e. Kôm el Ahmar ( p . 307 ) . These two cities were the archaic capitals ...
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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.