Egyptian DaysHoughton Mifflin, 1912 - 329 pages |
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Page 101
... halls always filled their panels with scenes from the daily life , the life of the river and the field . There was no mournful note about it . If the Egyptian of old time spent this life in thinking about death , he hoped by way of com ...
... halls always filled their panels with scenes from the daily life , the life of the river and the field . There was no mournful note about it . If the Egyptian of old time spent this life in thinking about death , he hoped by way of com ...
Page 148
... hall is frequently compared for minuteness of exactitude to the best work of modern opticians . As for the cost , it must have been great , even though the labor employed on the actual building was forced and probably unremunerated by ...
... hall is frequently compared for minuteness of exactitude to the best work of modern opticians . As for the cost , it must have been great , even though the labor employed on the actual building was forced and probably unremunerated by ...
Page 223
... column as an architectural member . But the great entrance hall is full of them , -twenty - four in all , -massive boles of stone like stout trees , and each adorned with the broad , flat face of the goddess high above . ON TO DENDERA 223.
... column as an architectural member . But the great entrance hall is full of them , -twenty - four in all , -massive boles of stone like stout trees , and each adorned with the broad , flat face of the goddess high above . ON TO DENDERA 223.
Page 225
... hall - and here begins the temple proper . The Greeks would call this part of the shrine the " cella . " It is a complicated building divided into many parts and possessing many little side rooms which the ex- perts now denominate ...
... hall - and here begins the temple proper . The Greeks would call this part of the shrine the " cella . " It is a complicated building divided into many parts and possessing many little side rooms which the ex- perts now denominate ...
Page 226
... hall— name long productive of awe - struck expectancy be- cause of the celebrity of the great halls of Karnak . Doubtless that in the latter temple is immensely more extensive , but it will be difficult , surely , to afford a more ...
... hall— name long productive of awe - struck expectancy be- cause of the celebrity of the great halls of Karnak . Doubtless that in the latter temple is immensely more extensive , but it will be difficult , surely , to afford a more ...
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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