Egyptian DaysHoughton Mifflin, 1912 - 329 pages |
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... BANK AT THEBES • XIV . ESNEH , EDFÛ , AND KOM OMBO . XV . PHILÆ • XVI . ABYDOS : TELL EL AMARNA . INDEX • • 3 17 30 • 67 • 92 • 119 • 136 155 · . 181 201 • . 215 · 231 251 278 • 289 • 305 · • 325 ILLUSTRATIONS WAITING FOR THE LOCK ...
... BANK AT THEBES • XIV . ESNEH , EDFÛ , AND KOM OMBO . XV . PHILÆ • XVI . ABYDOS : TELL EL AMARNA . INDEX • • 3 17 30 • 67 • 92 • 119 • 136 155 · . 181 201 • . 215 · 231 251 278 • 289 • 305 · • 325 ILLUSTRATIONS WAITING FOR THE LOCK ...
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... banks eighteen or twenty feet above the level of the stream , it becomes necessary to raise the water by the use of power to the ... bank above , or by the employ- ment of a series of well - sweeps worked by human hands . The former , an ...
... banks eighteen or twenty feet above the level of the stream , it becomes necessary to raise the water by the use of power to the ... bank above , or by the employ- ment of a series of well - sweeps worked by human hands . The former , an ...
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... bank may pass it on to still another - and so on until it reaches the top . In the lower stages of the river , four or even five shadoufs may be necessary to com- plete the lifting . These continue to be very common despite the in ...
... bank may pass it on to still another - and so on until it reaches the top . In the lower stages of the river , four or even five shadoufs may be necessary to com- plete the lifting . These continue to be very common despite the in ...
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... bank of the Nile . That was an arrival never to be forgotten . The long ride led through a maze of streets lined with tall buildings , across squares aglow with light , and at last down past the museum and the barracks to where the ...
... bank of the Nile . That was an arrival never to be forgotten . The long ride led through a maze of streets lined with tall buildings , across squares aglow with light , and at last down past the museum and the barracks to where the ...
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... bank of the river , if you please , and then work backward , for thus we shall be afforded some illu- minating contrasts between West and East . One must travel something like a mile eastward from the river before reaching the ...
... bank of the river , if you please , and then work backward , for thus we shall be afforded some illu- minating contrasts between West and East . One must travel something like a mile eastward from the river before reaching the ...
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Abydos Amenhotep Amenhotep III Ammon Ammon-Ra ancient appears Arabs Assiut Assuan backsheesh bank bazaars Beni Hassan body building Cairo camel carved cemetery chapel Cheops Citadel cliffs colossi columns Copts court dead decoration delightful Dendera desert donkey doubtless dragoman Dynasty Edfû Egypt Egyptian erected Esneh eternal face feet feluccas Ghizeh gods Greek Hassan Hatasu Hathor Horus huge hypostyle hall impressive Isis Karnak Khephrên king KOM OMBO land later lofty Luxor magnificent massive mastaba mastaba tomb Memphis midst miles modern Mohammed monarchs monument mortuary mosque Mouski mummy native Nile once Osiris passed Pharaoh Philæ Professor Ptolemaic pylon pyramids Rameses Rameses II Ramesseum Raschid ride river rock ruin sacred Sakkâra sands seems seen Seti shrine side sort sowaheen Sphinx spot steamer stone street Taiyah tarbush temple Thebes thing Thutmosis Thutmosis III tion to-day towers valley visitor walls worship