The Nile: Notes for Travellers in EgyptThos. Cook & son, Ludgate Circus, 1893 - 425 pages |
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Page 28
... four parts ; 1 , the capital town ( nut ) ; 2 , the cultivated land ; 3 , the marshes , which could only at times be used for purposes of cultivation ; and 4 , the canals , which had to be kept clear and provided with sluices , etc. , 4 ...
... four parts ; 1 , the capital town ( nut ) ; 2 , the cultivated land ; 3 , the marshes , which could only at times be used for purposes of cultivation ; and 4 , the canals , which had to be kept clear and provided with sluices , etc. , 4 ...
Page 38
... four - fifths of the entire population of Egypt , and are chiefly employed in agricultural pursuits . In physical type they greatly resemble the ancient Egyptians as depicted on the monuments . Their com- plexion is dark ; they have ...
... four - fifths of the entire population of Egypt , and are chiefly employed in agricultural pursuits . In physical type they greatly resemble the ancient Egyptians as depicted on the monuments . Their com- plexion is dark ; they have ...
Page 46
... 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 . The source of the Nile was not discovered by Bruce , but by Captains Grant and Speke and ...
... 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 . The source of the Nile was not discovered by Bruce , but by Captains Grant and Speke and ...
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... four nnn māb , thirty || tua , five @saa , a hundred sas ( ? ) , six ||| I cha , a thousand sechef , seven ↑ t'ebā , ten thousand hefnu , a hundred thou- www Mõ плос chemennu , eight ḥeb , a million sand The forms of the numbers 40 ...
... four nnn māb , thirty || tua , five @saa , a hundred sas ( ? ) , six ||| I cha , a thousand sechef , seven ↑ t'ebā , ten thousand hefnu , a hundred thou- www Mõ плос chemennu , eight ḥeb , a million sand The forms of the numbers 40 ...
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... four of growing фармото March 27 ང་ åbet sen set Month one of inundation & XON Month two of inundation п & ш April 26 May 26 åbet chemt set Month three of inundation ЄПНП June 25 åbet ftu set Month four of inundation εсwрн July 25 ...
... four of growing фармото March 27 ང་ åbet sen set Month one of inundation & XON Month two of inundation п & ш April 26 May 26 åbet chemt set Month three of inundation ЄПНП June 25 åbet ftu set Month four of inundation εсwрн July 25 ...
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Abydos Alexandria Amāsis Åmen Amen-Rā Amenophis Amenophis III ancient Egyptian antiquities Anubis Arabic Aswân beautiful Black granite body Bubastis building built Bûlâk Cairo called canal cartouches chamber church coffin and mummy comest Coptic Copts dead Dêr east Egyptian Ethiopia excavations famous Fayyûm feet figures funereal Gebel Barkal Gizeh goddess gods granite Greek Hail Hathor Heliopolis hieroglyphic honour Horus Hyksos inscribed inscriptions Isis IVth Karnak land large number Limestone Limestone stele lord Mariette Maspero Memphis miles from Cairo monuments Mosque Muḥammad mummy Nekht Nile Nubia obelisk Osiris papyrus priest Psammetichus Ptaḥ Ptolemy pylon pyramid Queen Rameses Rameses II Red granite reign represented river Roman Room Sakkârah sarcophagus scarabs scribe sculptures Seti shrine side sphinxes stele stone Suez Sulțân table of offerings tablets Tanis temple Thebes thee Thothmes thou tomb town Upper Egypt Usertsen Vth dynasty walls XIIth XVIIIth dynasty XXVIth
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Page 34 - 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 97 - 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 108 - 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 119 - 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 225 - ... 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 128 - Her sacred precinct is thus situated : All except the entrance is an island ; for two canals from the Nile extend to it, not mingling with each other, but each reaches as far as the entrance of the precinct, one flowing round it on one side, the other on the other. Each is a hundred feet broad, and shaded with trees. The portico is ten orgyae in height, and is adorned with figures six cubits high, that are deserving of notice. This precinct, being in the middle of the city, is visible on every side...
Page 281 - ... 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 viii - It is for this reason that no attempt has been made to run logs in the river.
Page 199 - These balls are at first irregularly shaped and soft, but by degrees, and during the process of rolling along, become rounded and harder; they are propelled by means of the hind legs.
Page 225 - And they worked to the number of 100,000 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, along which they drew the stones, a work in my opinion, not much less than the pyramid...