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Page 85
In one of these lanes lies the oldest of the Coptic sanctuaries for which the district
is famous — the church of Abou Sergheh . Tradition relates all sorts of wonderful
things about it which the critical will hardly accept for truth . It is impossible to ...
In one of these lanes lies the oldest of the Coptic sanctuaries for which the district
is famous — the church of Abou Sergheh . Tradition relates all sorts of wonderful
things about it which the critical will hardly accept for truth . It is impossible to ...
Page 92
... sorts , and the temples . Each species is so intimately connected with the
religion of the ancient peoples and their ideas of the attributes of their gods that
what is said of these things relates almost equally to both tomb THE OLD
RELIGION.
... sorts , and the temples . Each species is so intimately connected with the
religion of the ancient peoples and their ideas of the attributes of their gods that
what is said of these things relates almost equally to both tomb THE OLD
RELIGION.
Page 93
Philip Sanford Marden. said of these things relates almost equally to both tomb
and shrine as a preparation of the visitor to understand them . By far the larger
portion of the surviving relics of the remoter ages is made up of the burial - places
.
Philip Sanford Marden. said of these things relates almost equally to both tomb
and shrine as a preparation of the visitor to understand them . By far the larger
portion of the surviving relics of the remoter ages is made up of the burial - places
.
Page 118
his body and the hope of a glorious resurrection ; and that of the gods , apart from
the sun - deity , the most important appear to have been those whose functions
relate to judgments to be passed beyond the grave . 32 THE immense extent of ...
his body and the hope of a glorious resurrection ; and that of the gods , apart from
the sun - deity , the most important appear to have been those whose functions
relate to judgments to be passed beyond the grave . 32 THE immense extent of ...
Page 148
... of their fields , and would be free to labor on the royal tomb . Herodotus relates
that at such seasons 100 , 000 men were employed and that the work on the
actual pyramid. 148. EGYPTIAN. DAYS.
... of their fields , and would be free to labor on the royal tomb . Herodotus relates
that at such seasons 100 , 000 men were employed and that the work on the
actual pyramid. 148. EGYPTIAN. DAYS.
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Egyptian Days |
| Author | Philip Sanford Marden |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin, 1912 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 9 Dec 2008 |
| Length | 329 pages |
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