Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians,: Including Their Private Life, Government, Laws, Arts, Manufactures, Religion and Early History; Derived from a Comparison of the Paintings, Sculptures, and Monuments Still Existing, with the Accounts of Ancient Authors, Volume 2John Murray, Albemarle Street., 1837 - Architecture, Egyptian |
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... ornamented . Pan- eled Walls Royal Villas and Forts . Extent of these Villas . Arrange- ment of them The Two Wings often differed . Coach - houses Granaries . Mode of filling the Store - rooms . Stewards - 135 Gardens . Mode of ...
... ornamented . Pan- eled Walls Royal Villas and Forts . Extent of these Villas . Arrange- ment of them The Two Wings often differed . Coach - houses Granaries . Mode of filling the Store - rooms . Stewards - 135 Gardens . Mode of ...
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... ornamented with the Figure of a Lion like the Throne of Solomon . The Cushions and rich Coverings - 195 of the Back . Stools - 196 Three - legged Stools used by common People - 197 Ottomans . Captives represented in humiliating ...
... ornamented with the Figure of a Lion like the Throne of Solomon . The Cushions and rich Coverings - 195 of the Back . Stools - 196 Three - legged Stools used by common People - 197 Ottomans . Captives represented in humiliating ...
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... ornamented . Berlin and Leyden Lyres Greek Lyres . Number of Strings increased No Greek Harp . Different Instruments mentioned by an- cient Writers , their Forms unknown Jewish Lyre or Kinoor . Painted Figures at Beni Hassan may refer ...
... ornamented . Berlin and Leyden Lyres Greek Lyres . Number of Strings increased No Greek Harp . Different Instruments mentioned by an- cient Writers , their Forms unknown Jewish Lyre or Kinoor . Painted Figures at Beni Hassan may refer ...
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... ornamented with Figures of Monsters · 344 - 345 - 348 Vases with single Handles , or Rings , or without Handles Excellence of the Workmanship of one belonging to the late Mr. Salt · - - 349 351 · 353 354 Canopi . The Treasury of ...
... ornamented with Figures of Monsters · 344 - 345 - 348 Vases with single Handles , or Rings , or without Handles Excellence of the Workmanship of one belonging to the late Mr. Salt · - - 349 351 · 353 354 Canopi . The Treasury of ...
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... Ornamented doorways in the interior of 115. No. 106. Different modes of roofing chambers . OF THE PLATES , ETC. XXV Page 116. Wood - xxiv LIST AND EXPLANATION Figure playing the Guitar, carved on one in the Berlin Museum Other Boxes of ...
... Ornamented doorways in the interior of 115. No. 106. Different modes of roofing chambers . OF THE PLATES , ETC. XXV Page 116. Wood - xxiv LIST AND EXPLANATION Figure playing the Guitar, carved on one in the Berlin Museum Other Boxes of ...
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according adopted Alabastron Alexandria Amasis appear Arabic Athenæus bastinado Beni Hassan Berlin Museum Cairo CHAP chief Conf Copt court crime custom dancing Diod Diodor door double pipe Egyp Egyptians employed flute found at Thebes frequently garden gods Greeks ground guests guitar hand harp Heptanomis Herculaneum Herodotus hieratic hieroglyphic honour Horus instrument introduced Jews judges justice kind king land laws Lower Egypt lyre mentioned ments military mode modern Egypt modern Egyptians monarch Moslems Nile nomarch nome offence ornamented paintings party persons Pharaoh Plin Plutarch præfects present day priests probably provinces Ptolemy punishment received Remeses Rhampsinitus Romans rooms Salt's Collection says sculptures servants side similar sistrum slaves sometimes stone Strabo strings suppose temple Thebaïd Thebes tion tombs town trees upper vases Vide plate Vide references Vide suprà Vide wood-cut villas vineyard wine women wooden
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Page 5 - For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs...
Page 372 - And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness: And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.
Page 149 - My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill : and he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein : and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
Page 372 - But the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the Lord, to make an atonement with him, and to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness.
Page 108 - It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
Page 63 - And yet indeed she is my sister ; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother ; and she became my wife.
Page 317 - And David and all the house of Israel played before the Lord on all manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals.
Page 220 - Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments: and let no flower of the spring pass by us: 8 Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds, before they be withered...
Page 312 - And Miriam, the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously : the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Page 222 - Plato, who was well acquainted with the usages of the Egyptians, says that they considered music of the greatest consequence, from its beneficial effects upon the mind of youth; and, according to Strabo, the children of the Egyptians were taught letters, the songs appointed by law, and a certain kind of music, established by government.