A History of Egypt: During the XVIIth and XVIIIth Dynasties. 1896, with Additions to 1898Charles Schribner's Sons, 1897 - 353 pages |
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Aah hotep Aahmes Abydos adoring Akhenaten alabaster Amenhotep Amenhotep III Amurri ankh appears Aswan Aten Aziru Behold bronze campaign cartouches chariots chief coffin dated daughter deben Deir el Bahri Dushratta Egyptian F.P. Coll father Amen fragments Ghizeh glazed gold Gubla Gurob Hatshepsut head Hebron Horemheb Horus Hyksos inscription Kames Karnak keeper Khatti king of Egypt king's Kush L.D. iii land letter Louvre Majesty Manetho Medinet Habu Megiddo Memphis messenger monuments mother mummy Naharina Nefer Nefertari obelisk Pakhons palace prince princesses probably Ptah pylon qedt queen Qurneh R.P. xvii Ramessu red granite reign Ribaddu rings royal scribe scarabs scenes sculpture sent Seqenenra Sety shows Silsileh silver sphinxes statue stele stone Syria tablet Tadukhipa Tahutmes Tahutmes III Tell el Amarna temple Thebes thou throne tomb tribute Turin Tutankhamen Tyre vases wife xviii XVIIIth dynasty Zemar
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Page 216 - The small bird in the egg, sounding within the shell, Thou givest to it breath within the egg, To give life to that which thou makest. It gathers itself to break forth from the egg, It cometh from the egg, and chirps with all its might, It runneth on its feet, when it has come forth.
Page 216 - How many are the things which thou hast made ! Thou createst the land by thy will, thou alone, With peoples, herds, and flocks, Everything on the face of the earth that walketh on its feet, Everything in the air that flieth with its wings.
Page 23 - Tent'ta'd, his majesty carried him off as a living captive, and all his men, with swiftness of capture. And I brought off two attendants (?) whom I had seized on the ship of Aata ; and there were given to me five heads for my share and five sta of land in my own city. It was done to all the company of the marines in like manner. "Then that enemy named Teta'an came; he had collected rebels. But his majesty slaughtered him and his slaves even to extinction. And there were given to me three heads and...
Page 216 - Thou createst the land by thy will, thou alone, With peoples, herds, and flocks, Everything on the face of the earth that walketh on its feet, Everything in the air that flieth with its wings. In the hills from Syria to Kush, and the plain of Egypt, Thou givest to every one his place, thou framest their lives, To every one his belongings, reckoning his length of days ; Their tongues are diverse in their speech, Their natures in the colour of their skin.
Page 148 - The striking change in the physiognomy and ideal type of the upper classes in the latter part of the XVIIIth dynasty points to a strong foreign infusion. In place of the bold, active faces of earlier times, there is a peculiar sweetness and delicacy ; a gentle smile and a small, gracefullycurved nose are characteristic of the upper classes in the time of Amenhotep III.
Page 166 - Khepra, great and exalted, rested in this place, great of spirits, most highly revered, for to him was given the temples of Memphis and of every town upon both sides. Their hands adored his presence with great offerings for his ka. One of these times it came to pass a journey was made by the king's son Tahutmes, journeying upon the time of noon. A rest he made in the shadow of this god, sleep fell upon him, dreaming in slumber in the moment when the sun was overhead. Found he the majesty of this...
Page 21 - Alisphragmuthosis. endeavoured to force them by a siege, and beleaguered the face with a body of four hundred and eighty thousand men ; but at the moment when he despaired of reducing them by siege, they agreed to a capitulation, that they would leave Egypt, and should be permitted to go out without molestation wheresoever they pleased. And according to this stipulation, they departed from Egypt with all their families and effects, in number not less than two hundred and forty thousand, and bent...
Page 86 - 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...
Page 109 - Bc 1503-1449.] 109 [and] placed on a roll of leather in the temple of Amen on this day. The capitulation of Megiddo. Then the chiefs of this land came, with them that pertained to them, to smell the ground to the spirits of His Majesty, asking breath for their nostrils of the greatness of his power...
Page 214 - If this were a new religion, invented to satisfy our modern scientific conceptions, we could not find a flaw in the correctness of its view of the energy of the solar system.