A Guide to the Antiquities of Upper Egypt: From Abydos to the Sudan FrontierMacmillan, 1910 - 594 pages |
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... inscription referring to a " Prince of Abdu , " which is the earliest instance of the use of this name . A decree dating from the reign of Teta of the VIth dynasty was found here ; King Pepy Ist seems to have built a temple on the site ...
... inscription referring to a " Prince of Abdu , " which is the earliest instance of the use of this name . A decree dating from the reign of Teta of the VIth dynasty was found here ; King Pepy Ist seems to have built a temple on the site ...
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... inscriptions bearing on the history of the VIth dynasty were discovered . So many of these persons held the title of Heq ... inscription of King Nebhotep Menthuhotep of the The XIth , XIth dynasty refers to him as son of Hathor , Lady of ...
... inscriptions bearing on the history of the VIth dynasty were discovered . So many of these persons held the title of Heq ... inscription of King Nebhotep Menthuhotep of the The XIth , XIth dynasty refers to him as son of Hathor , Lady of ...
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... inscriptions outside the temple refer to Ptolemy XVIth Cæsarion and to the Emperor Augustus . On the rear wall Cæsarion and Cleopatra VIth are shown . The Greek dedicatory inscription states that the great 1 A block of stone bearing the ...
... inscriptions outside the temple refer to Ptolemy XVIth Cæsarion and to the Emperor Augustus . On the rear wall Cæsarion and Cleopatra VIth are shown . The Greek dedicatory inscription states that the great 1 A block of stone bearing the ...
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... inscription states that the decoration of the outer walls had been finished in that sovereign's second year . Thus the temple as it stands dates from about B.C. 125 to 60 A.D. , its building occupying about 185 years . It was not ...
... inscription states that the decoration of the outer walls had been finished in that sovereign's second year . Thus the temple as it stands dates from about B.C. 125 to 60 A.D. , its building occupying about 185 years . It was not ...
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... inscription on the latter mentions the twenty- first year of Tiberius . The Coptic Church . The ceme- teries of ... inscriptions and reliefs have been removed . Some two or three miles back in the desert there are several small tumuli ...
... inscription on the latter mentions the twenty- first year of Tiberius . The Coptic Church . The ceme- teries of ... inscriptions and reliefs have been removed . Some two or three miles back in the desert there are several small tumuli ...
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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.