A Guide to the Antiquities of Upper Egypt: From Abydos to the Sudan FrontierMacmillan, 1910 - 594 pages |
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... remains of a temple of exceptional richness and beauty . The few remaining reliefs upon the walls display a delicacy of workmanship far removed above that shown in most of the temples of this period ; and the visitor will find it worth ...
... remains of a temple of exceptional richness and beauty . The few remaining reliefs upon the walls display a delicacy of workmanship far removed above that shown in most of the temples of this period ; and the visitor will find it worth ...
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... REMAINS The numerous other remains at Abydos need only be recorded briefly here , as they are rarely visited . The remains of the city of This and of the " Temenos of Osiris " are to be found to the north - west of the temple of Rameses ...
... REMAINS The numerous other remains at Abydos need only be recorded briefly here , as they are rarely visited . The remains of the city of This and of the " Temenos of Osiris " are to be found to the north - west of the temple of Rameses ...
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... Amrah , 5 miles south of Abydos , on the west bank . This is now entirely excavated . A few graves of this and later periods are the only remains until Hou is reached . Methods of visiting Hou and Kasr es Sayâd . A ABYDOS 25.
... Amrah , 5 miles south of Abydos , on the west bank . This is now entirely excavated . A few graves of this and later periods are the only remains until Hou is reached . Methods of visiting Hou and Kasr es Sayâd . A ABYDOS 25.
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... remains which are met with are situated in the neighbourhood of the modern town of Hou on the west bank of the river , and Kasr es Sayâd on the east bank . The tombs of Kasr es Sayâd are decorated with reliefs which are only rather poor ...
... remains which are met with are situated in the neighbourhood of the modern town of Hou on the west bank of the river , and Kasr es Sayâd on the east bank . The tombs of Kasr es Sayâd are decorated with reliefs which are only rather poor ...
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... remains of the temple at Hou bear the names of Ptolemy VIIth , Philometer Ist , Ptolemy Xth , Philometer IInd , the Emperor Nerva , and the Emperor Hadrian . The fortress built here in Roman times may have been used as a basis of ...
... remains of the temple at Hou bear the names of Ptolemy VIIth , Philometer Ist , Ptolemy Xth , Philometer IInd , the Emperor Nerva , and the Emperor Hadrian . The fortress built here in Roman times may have been used as a basis of ...
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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.