Title: History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria
Author: G. Maspero
Editor: David Widger
Translator: M. L. McClure
Release date: May 19, 2009 [eBook #28876]
Most recently updated: November 11, 2023
Language: English
Credits: Produced by David Widger
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CONTENTS
CHAPTER III.—-THE LEGENDARY HISTORY OF EGYPT
List of Illustrations
006.jpg The Mouth of The Nile Previous to The Formation Of the Delta.
009.jpg A Line of Laden Camels Emerges from A Hollow
011.jpg Part of Gebel Shêkh HerÎdi
012.jpg The Hill of Kasr Es-sayyad
014.jpg Entrance to the First Cataract
016.jpg League Beyond League, the Hills Stretch on
018.jpg The Entrance to The First Cataract
020.jpg Entrance to the Second Catakact
022.jpg An Attempt to Represent the Egyptian Universe
023.jpg Footnotes With Graphics
027.jpg South Africa and the Sources of The Nile
036.jpg Entrance of the MudÎriyeh Of AsyÛt
040.jpg Acacias at the Entrance to a Garden Outside EkhmÎm
045.jpg The Mormyrus Oxyrhynchus
047.jpg Two Fishermen Carrying a Latus
049.jpg The Shrine of The Nile at Biggeh
051.jpg Nile Gods from the Temple of Seti I. At Abydos
059.jpg The Noble Type of Egyptian
060.jpg Head of a Tileban Mummy
060b.jpg Wrappings from a Mummy (Oil painting)
062.jpg A Fellah Woman With the Features of an Ancient King
066.jpg Negro Prisoners Wearing the Panther's Skin As A Loin-cloth.
068.jpg Notable Wearing the Large Cloak; Priest Wearing Panther's Skin
070.jpg A Dignitary Wrapped in his Large Cloak
072.jpg Costume of Egyptian Woman, Spinning
073.jpg Man Wearing Wig and Necklaces
074.jpg The Boomerang and Fighting Bow
076.jpg King Holding the Baton
077.jpg Fishing in the Marshes
078.jpg Hunting in the Marshes: Encountering a Hippopotamus
079.jpg Hunting in the Desert: Bull, Lion, and Oryx
080.jpg Catching Animals With the Bola
082.jpg A Swineherd and his Pigs
089.jpg An Egyptian Saki (well) Procuring Water for Irrigation
091.jpg Boatmen Fighting on a Canal Communicating With The Nile
092.jpg A Great Egyptian Lord, Ti, and his Wife
108.jpg the Goddess NapkÎt, StapÎt
110.jpg Some Fabulous Beasts of the Egyptian Desert
113.jpb Some Fabulous Beasts of the Egyptian Desert
116.jpg Goose-god Facing The Cat-goddess, The Lady Of Heaven
117.jpg the Cow HÂthor, The Lady Of Heaven
118.jpg Twelve Stages in The Life of The Sun and Its Twelve Forms
123.jpg Conception of the Principal Constellations of the Northern Sky
124.jpg Lunar Bark, Self-propelled, Under The Protection of the Two Eyes
125.jpg The Haunch, and The Female Hippopotamus
127.jpg Okion, Sothis, and Two Hokus-planets
129.jpg Orion and the Cow Sothis Separated by The Sparrow-hawk
131.jpg Amon-rÂ, As MÎnÛ of Coptos, Invested With His Emblems
136.jpg The Hoeus of HibonÛ, on The Back Of The Gazelle
147.jp The Black Shadow Coming out Into The Sunlight.
148.jpg August Souls of Osiris and Horus in Adoration
150.jpg The King After his Coronation
161.jpg Sacrificing to the Dead in The Tomb Chapel
169.jpg Open-air Offerings to the Serpent
171.jpg The Peasant's Offering to The Sycamore
173.jpg Sacrifice of The Bull.—Priest Lassoing the Victim
182.jpg ShÛ Forcibly Separating SibÛ and NÛÎt
185.jpg Osiris-onnophris, Whip and Crook in Hand
187.jpg Isis, Wearing the Cow-horn Head-dress
189.jpg Nephthys, As a Wailing Woman, and the God SÎt, Fighting
192.jpg Horus, the Avenger of his Father, and Anubis ÛapÔaÎtÛ
191.jpg The Sun Springing from an Opening Lotus-flower
194.jpg The Plain and Mounds of Heliopolis Fifty Years Ago
196.jpg HakmakhÛÎti-hakmakhis, the Great God
201.jpg The Twin Lions, ShÛ and TafnÛÎt
204.jpg The Four Funerary Genii, KhabsonÛf, TiÛmaÛtf, Hapi, and AmsÎt
208.jpg The Ibis Thot, and The Cynocephalous Thot
212.jpg The Hermopolitan Ogdoad
224.jpg KhnÛmÛ Modelling Man Upon a Potter's Table.
230.jpg At the First Hour of The Day The Sun Embarks
236.jpg SokhÎt, the Lioness-headed.
242.jpg Cow, Sustained Above the Earth by ShÛ and The Support
244.jpg Three of the Divine Amulets Preserved
250.jpg the Osmian Triad Hokus. Osiris, Isis.
253.jpg Isis-hathor, Cow-headed.
256.jpg The Osirian Mummy Prepared
257.jpg The Reception Op The Mummy by Anubis
259.jpg Osikis in Hades, Accompanied by Isis, AmentÎt, And Nephthys
260.jpg The Deceased Climbing The Slope of The Mountain Of the West
261.jpg The Mummy of SÛtimosÛ Clasping his Soul Into His Arms.
262.jpg Cynocephali Drawing the Net in Which Souls Are Caught. 1
264.jpg Deceased and his Wife Seated in Front of The Sycamore of NÛÎt
266.jpg Deceased Piercing a Serpent With his Lance. 2
267.jpg Good Cow HÂthor Carrying The Dead Man and His Soul.
268.jpg Anubis and Thot Weighing the Heart of The Deceased
269.jpg The Deceased is Brought Before The Shrine Of Osiris the Judge
272B.jpg The Occupations of Ani in the Elysian Fields
275.jpg The Manes Tilling The Ground and Reaping in Fields
277.jpg The Dead Man and his Wife Playing at Draughts In The Pavilion.
278.jpg The Dead Man Sailing in his Bark Along The Canals
279.jpg Boat of a Funerary Fleet on Its Way to Abydos.
280.jpg The Solar Bark Into Which The Dead Man is About To Enter.
282.jpg The Solar Bark Passing Into The Mountain of The West.
284.jpg The Soul Descending The Sepulchral Shaft
285.jpg The Soul on The Edge of The Funeral Couch
287.jpg The Soul Going Forth Into Its Garden by Day
289.jpg An Incident in the Wars of Haratheus and Sit
293.jpg One of the Astronomical Tables Of The Tomb Of Ramses IV.
304.jpg The Gods Fighting Foe The Magician Who Has Invoked Them.
306.jpg The Child Horus on The Crocodiles.
310.jpg A Dead Man Receiving the Breath of Life.
315.jpg Th0t Records the Years of The Life Of Ramses.
332.jpg Plan of the Ruins Of Abydos, Made by Mariette In 1865 and 1875.
343.jpg Necklace, Bearing Name of Menes.
350.jpg SatÎt Presents the Pharaoh AmenÔthes III. To KhnÔmÛ.
353.jpg The Step Pyramid of Sauara.
356. Jpg One of the Chambers Of The Step-pyramid
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I—THE POLITICAL CONSTITUTION OF EGYPT
CHAPTER II—THE MEMPHITE EMPIRE
CHAPTER III—THE FIRST THEBAN EMPIRE
List of Illustrations
004.jpg the Mastaba of Khomtini in The Necropolis Of GÎzeh
006.jpg the Great Sphinx of GÎzeh Partially Uncovered, And the Pyramid of Khephren
008.jpg TetiniÔnkhÛ, Sitting Before the Funeral Repast
009.jpg the Façade and The Stele of The Tomb Of Phtahshopsisu at Saqqara
010.jpg Stele in the Form of a Door
014.jpg a Representation of the Domains Of The Lord Ti, Bringing to Him Offerings in Procession
021.jpg the Birth of a King and his Double
024.jpg the Adult King Advancing, Followed by his Double
028.jpg the Goddess Adopts The King by Suckling Him
029.jpg the Cucupha-headed Sceptre.
030.jpg Different Postures for Approaching the King
039.jpg Pharaoh Gives Solemn Audience to One of His Ministers
042.jpg The Queen Shakes the Sistrum While The King Offers The Sacrifice
042b.jpg the Island and Temple of Phil.
051.jpg Men and Women Singers, Flute-players, Harpists, And Dancers, from the Tomb of Ti
052.jpg the Dwarf Khnumhotpu, Superintendent of The Royal Linen
059.jpg the Packing of The Linen and Its Removal to The White Storehouse.
061.jpg Measuring the Wheat and Depositing It in The Granaries
063.jpg Plan of a Princely Storehouse for Provisions
065.jpg the Staff of a Government Officer in The Time Of The Memphite Dynasties
068.jpg the Funeral Stele of The Tomb Of Amten, The "grand Huntsman."
072.jpg Statue of Amten, Found in his Tomb
075.jpg Plan of the Villa Of a Great Egyptian Noble
077.jpg Hunting With the Boomerang and Fishing With The Double Harpoon in a Marsh Or Pool
078.jpg Prince Api, Borne in a Palanquin, Inspects His Funerary Domain
079.jpg a Dwarf Playing With Cynocephali and A Tame Ibis
092.jpg Some of the Military Athletic Exercises
095.jpg War-dance Performed by Egyptian Soldiers Before A Battle
098.jpg Two Blacksmiths Working the Bellows
099.jpg Stone-cutters Finishing the Dressing of Limestone Blocks
101.jpg a Workshop of Shoemakers Manufacturing Sandals
101.jpg the Baker Making his Bread and Placing It in The Oven
103.jpg the House of a Great Egyptian Lord
104.jpg Plan of a Part Of the Ancient Town Of Kahun
105.jpg Stele of SÎtÛ, Representing the Front Of a House
106.jpg a Street in the Higher Quarter of Modern SiÛt
107.jpg a Hall With Columns in One of the Xiith Dynasty Houses at Gurob
109.jpg Apparatus for Striking a Light
110.jpg Mitral Paintings in the Ruins of an Ancient House At Kahun
114.jpg Two Women Weaving Linen at a Horizantal Loom
118.jpg One of the Forms Of Egyptian Scales
123.jpg Part of the Modern Village Of Karnak, to The West Of the Temple of ApÎt
128.jpg the Levying of The Tax: The Taxpayer in The Scribe's Office
130.jpg Levying the Tax: The Taxpayer in The Hands of The Exactors
131.jpg Levying the Tax: The Bastinado
132.jpg Collosal Statue of a King
136.jpg Colored Sculptures in the Palace
142a.jpg Two FellahÎn Work the Shadouf in a Garden
142b.jpg Cutting and Carrying the Harvest
147.jpg a Flock of Goats and the Song Of A Goatherd
154.jpg Map Sinaitic Peninsular, Time of Memphite Empire
156.jpg A Barbarian MonÎti from Sinai
157.jpg Two Refuge Towers of the HirÛ-shÂÎtÛ, in The Wady BÎar
159.jpg View of the Oasis Of Wady FeÎkÂn in The Peninsula Of Sinai
163.jpg the Mining Works of Wady Maghara
164.jpg the High Castle of The Miners—haÎt-qaÎt—at The Confluence of Wady Genneh and Wady Maghara
171.jpg the Court and The Two StelÆ of The Chapel Adjoining the Pyramid of MêdÛm
176.jpg the Triumphal Bas-reliefs of Kheops on The Rocks Of Wady Maghara
176b.jpg Profile of Head Of a Mummy, (a Man) Thebes
179.jpg KhÛÎt, the Great Pyramid of GÎzeh, The Sphinx, And the Temple of The Sphinx
181a.jpg the Movable Flagstone at The Entrance to The Great Pyramid
181b.jpg the Interior of The Great Pyramid
183.jpg the Ascending Passage of The Great Pyramid
187.jpg the Name of Kheops Drawn in Red on Several Blocks Of the Great Pyramid
188.jpg Alabaster Statue of Khephren
188b.jpg the Pyramid of Khephren
192.jpg Diorite Statue of MenraÛrÏ
194.jpg the Coffin of Mykerinos
196.jpg the Granite Sarcophagus of Mykerinos
198.jpg Diorite Statue of Khephren, GÎzeu Museum
211.jpg Table of the IVth Dynasty
215.jpg Table of Pharaohs Of the Vth Dynasty
210.jpg Statue in Rose-coloured Granite of the Pharaoh AnÛ, in the GÎzeh Museum
217.jpg Triumphal Bas-relief of Pharaoh SahÛrÛ, on The Rocks of Wady Magharah.
219.jpg Passenger Vessel Under Sail
223.jpg Map of Nubia in the Time Of The Memphite Empire
225.jpg Head of an Inhabitant Of PÛanÎt
234a.jpg Avenue of Sphinxes—karnak
236.jpg One of the Wooden Panels Of Hosi, in The GÎzeh Museum
237.jpg a Sculptor's Studio, and Egyptian Painters At Work
238.jpg Cellarer Coating a Jar With Pitch
239.jpg Baker Kneading his Dough
241.jpg the Sheikh-el Beled in The Gizeh Museum
242.jpg the Kneeling Scribe in The Gizeh Museum
246.jpg Peasant Going to Market
247.jpg Kofir, the Director of Granaries
252.jpg Stele of the Daughter Of Kheops
253.jpg the Pharaoh MenkauhorÛ
255.jpg the Mastabat-el-faraun, Looking Towards The West Façade
265.jpg the Island of Elephantine
266.jpg the Island of Elephantine Seen from The Ruins Of Syenne
269.jpg Small Wady, Five Hours Beyond Ed-doueÎg, on The Road to the Red Sea
270.jpg the Rocks of The Island Of Sehêl, With Some Of The Votive Inscriptions
275.jpg the Mountain of Aswan and The Tombs Of The Princes of Elephantine
278.jpg HirkhÛf Receiving Posthumous Homage at the Door Of his Tomb from His Son
282.jpg Head of the Mummy Of Metesouphis I
283.jpg Plan of the Pyramid Of Unas
284.jpg the Sepulchral Chamber in The Pyramid of Unas, And his Sarcophaous