A Popular Account of the Ancient Egyptians: Revised and Abridged from His Larger Work, المجلد 1Harper & brothers, 1854 |
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18th dynasty Alnwick Castle altar Amun animals Apis appear arms Asiatic Athenæus attached Beni Hassan Berlin Museum body British Museum bronze carried centre ceremony chariot colour consisted court covered custom dancing deity Diodorus door double pipe dress Egyp Egypt Egyptians emblems Ethiopia fastened feet festival figure flabella flute found at Thebes frequently garden gazelle gods grapes Greeks guests guitar hand harp Hassan head held Herodotus hieroglyphic honour Horapollo hyæna inches instrument kind king leather libation lotus lower lyre mentioned metal mode modern monarch Nile occasion offerings ornamented Osiris painted peculiar placed Plutarch present day priests principal probably purpose Remeses represented resembled Romans round sacred sacrifice Salt's Collection sculptures shield side similar sistrum sometimes spear stone Strabo strings Tel el Amarna temple Thebes tombs towns trees upper usual various vases vines vineyard wall wine women wood Woodcut wooden
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الصفحة 34 - 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...
الصفحة 172 - 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.
الصفحة 188 - Our life is short and tedious, and in the death of a man there is no remedy: neither was there any man known to have returned from the grave. For we are born at all adventure: and we shall be hereafter as though we had never been...
الصفحة 172 - 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.
الصفحة 179 - And they sat before him, the first-born according to his birth-right, and the youngest according to his youth: and the men marvelled one at another.
الصفحة 226 - Besides the ordinary sphinx, compounded of a lion and a man, and denominated androsphinx, were the criosphinx, with the head of a ram, and the hieracosphinx, with the...
الصفحة 188 - Come on therefore, let us enjoy the good things that are present, and let us speedily use the creatures like as in youth. Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments; and let no flower of the spring pass by us; let us crown ourselves with rosebuds before they be withered...
الصفحة 291 - Vulcan ; which last is remarkable for its architectural beauty, its extent, and the richness of its decoration." The festival in honour of Apis lasted seven days ; on which occasion a large concourse of people assembled at Memphis. The priests then led the sacred bull in solemn procession...
الصفحة 146 - ... or preferred her own ; and women of every class vied with each other in the display of ' jewels of silver and jewels of gold...
الصفحة 45 - Some have pretended to doubt that the vine was commonly cultivated, or even grown, in Egypt ; but the frequent notice of it and of Egyptian wine in the scriptures, and the authority of ancient writers, sufficiently answer those objections ; and the regrets of the Israelites on leaving the vines of Egypt prove them to have been very abundant, since even people in the condition of slaves could procure the fruit.