The Nile-- notes for travellers in EgyptT. Cook & Son (Egypt), 1907 - 955 pages |
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... originally nothing more than a royal funeral chapel . The pillars are without any ornament or decoration , and the walls have neither bas - reliefs nor paintings on them ; the outsides of the walls are , however , ornamented with ...
... originally nothing more than a royal funeral chapel . The pillars are without any ornament or decoration , and the walls have neither bas - reliefs nor paintings on them ; the outsides of the walls are , however , ornamented with ...
Page 195
... originally funeral chapels , must have been as grand and beautiful as the chapels of private individuals . We know , too , that the XIIth dynasty temples must have been of very considerable size , otherwise the huge granite obelisks ...
... originally funeral chapels , must have been as grand and beautiful as the chapels of private individuals . We know , too , that the XIIth dynasty temples must have been of very considerable size , otherwise the huge granite obelisks ...
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... not been moved , it is conspicuous as it was originally built . A wall sculptured with figures runs round it ; and within is a grove of lofty trees , planted round a large temple in which the 418 NOTES FOR TRAVELLERS IN EGYPT .
... not been moved , it is conspicuous as it was originally built . A wall sculptured with figures runs round it ; and within is a grove of lofty trees , planted round a large temple in which the 418 NOTES FOR TRAVELLERS IN EGYPT .
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... originally served as the place for women at the service . On the north side it stops short at the choir , forming a kind of transept , which , however , does not project beyond the north aisle ...... On the south side of the church the ...
... originally served as the place for women at the service . On the north side it stops short at the choir , forming a kind of transept , which , however , does not project beyond the north aisle ...... On the south side of the church the ...
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... originally a Coptic church dedicated to St. Michael , and was sold to the Jews by a patriarch called Michael towards the end of the ninth century ; it measured 65 feet × 35 feet , and was said to contain a copy of the Law written by ...
... originally a Coptic church dedicated to St. Michael , and was sold to the Jews by a patriarch called Michael towards the end of the ninth century ; it measured 65 feet × 35 feet , and was said to contain a copy of the Law written by ...
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Common terms and phrases
Abû Abydos Alexandria Amenophis Amenophis III ancient Egyptian Arabs Aswân Atbara Barrage Blue Nile body British building built Cairo called canal capital Cataract chamber chapel Christians church columns Coptic Copts corvée Dêr Dervishes desert east excavations famous feet Gebel Barkal gods Government granite Greek Ḥalfa Hathor hieroglyphic Horus Hyksos inscribed inscriptions Isis Karnak Khalifa Khartûm king Lake land large number Luxor Mariette Memphis Meroë metres miles from Cairo mosque Muḥammad Muḥammadan mummy Museum natives Nekht Nile nome Nubia Oasis Osiris papyrus Pâshâ period Philæ pillars priests probably Ptaḥ Ptolemy pylon pyramid railway Rameses Rameses II reign river Roman royal ruins sarcophagus Sawâkin scenes Seti shrine side statue stele stone Sûdân Suez suten temple Thebes thee Thothmes thou tomb town Upper Egypt Usertsen Wâdî walls west bank White Nile worship XIIth XVIIIth dynasty
Popular passages
Page 412 - And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour. And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
Page 370 - PRAISE be to God, the Lord of all creatures, the most merciful, the king of the day of judgment. Thee do we worship, and of thee do we beg assistance. Direct us in the right way, in the way of those to whom thou hast been gracious ; not of those against whom thou art incensed, nor of those who go astray...
Page 117 - His Britannic Majesty's Government declare that they have no intention of altering the political status of Egypt. The Government of the French Republic, for their part, declare that they will not obstruct the action of Great Britain in that country by asking that a limit of time be fixed for the British occupation or in any other manner...
Page 339 - Sirat. which they say is laid over the midst of hell, and described to be finer than a hair, and sharper than the edge of a sword...
Page 379 - 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 destroyed.
Page 13 - And forty days were fulfilled for him ; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed : and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.
Page 411 - And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly.
Page 13 - God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Page 13 - For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.