Thebes, Its Tombs and Their Tenants, Ancient and Present: Including a Record of Excavations in the NecropolisLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862 - 329 pagine |
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Thebes, Its Tombs and Their Tenants, Ancient and Present: Including a Record ... Alexander Henry Rhind Visualizzazione completa - 1862 |
Thebes, Its Tombs and Their Tenants, Ancient and Present, Including a Record ... Alexander Henry Rhind Visualizzazione completa - 1862 |
Thebes: Its Tombs and Their Tenants, Ancient and Present, Including a Record ... Alexander Henry Rhind Visualizzazione completa - 1862 |
Parole e frasi comuni
accompanied actual ancient Egypt antiquities Anubis appear Assasseef Bab el-Molook bearing Birch bitumen body brick burial chamber character chief of mercenaries circumstances coffins colours condition considerable contents dead decorated deposited desert Diodorus Diodorus Siculus doorway doubt Drah-aboo-Neggeh Dynasties Egypt Eighteenth Dynasty embalmed entrance evidence example excavations existence extent eye of Horus fact feet fellaheen former funeral Geezeh Goorneh granite sarcophagus Greek Herodotus hieroglyphic hill illustrative inches inscriptions instances Karnak kind known labour less mentioned miles mummy mummy-case Museum native nature nearly Necro Necropolis of Thebes Nile objects occupied ornaments Osiris painted papyrus period Plate portion precise present preserved Princess probably pyramids reference regard relics religious remarkable rifled rock Rosellini Rougé royal ruins sand sarcophagus sculptured Sebau sepulchral shafts Shekh Abd-el-Goorneh side similar Strabo swathed temples Theban tion tombs Twentieth Dynasties valley various vestiges walls
Brani popolari
Pagina 205 - In examining the history of mankind, as well as in examining the phenomena of the material world, when we cannot trace the process by which an event has been produced, it is often of importance to be able to shew how it may have been produced by natural causes.
Pagina 152 - In social meetings among the rich, when the banquet is ended, a servant carries round to the several guests a coffin, in which there is a wooden image of a corpse, carved and painted to resemble nature as nearly as possible, about a cubit or two cubits in length. As he shows it to each guest in turn, the servant says, "Gaze here, and drink and be merry; for when you die, such will you be.
Pagina 4 - Mein Freund, die Zeiten der Vergangenheit Sind uns ein Buch mit sieben Siegeln. Was ihr den Geist der Zeiten heißt, Das ist im Grund der Herren eigner Geist, In dem die Zeiten sich bespiegeln.
Pagina 92 - ... deal shell or box, dovetailed at the corners. On the breast of the former a wreath of leaves was twined, and above the feet there rested the tiny bodies of two very young children, covered only by a few folds of simple bandages, the outer rolls of which encircled them together. The latter also bore a similar but a heavier burden, the mummy of a full-grown man carefully swathed, the exterior cloth being painted to represent the lineaments of the face, the hands, and the feet, with a line of hieroglyphics...
Pagina 98 - ... should stand intact, and particularly that an imposing receptacle like the sarcophagus so well calculated to excite the hopes of cupidity, should be permitted to retain, unattempted, the mystery of its interior. But the time had come when those who had reposed so long were to be disturbed in turn, although there were no successors to be established as they had been in the place of which some of them were to be dispossessed.
Pagina 96 - ... while they were in some cases completely broken away. Nor could this be explained by assuming, with reference to the presence of two bodies, that the coffin had first been deposited with one, and subsequently, as a manifestation even in death of earthly affection, opened to receive the other, that of the young girl, which was uppermost ; for, besides the evidence of rough usage, it was plain that the case was made having regard to a mummy of different dimensions from either of those within it,...
Pagina 109 - ... reasonable probability this indicator of age may be fairly held as of common application to the two. Nor would this conclusion be otherwise than countenanced by the style of mummification and decoration of the rifled bodies and coffins found in the built-up chambers above, and in vault No. 1 below. Whether the original occupants were allowed to sleep on in peace until the time of the last appropriation, or whether their right of property had been occasionally infringed in the interval, or themselves...
Pagina 96 - ... to a mummy of different dimensions from either of those within it, and intended to be differently disposed. The corroborative analogy of other facts observed in the tomb likewise went to prove that here was an instance of appropriation more remarkable than those occasionally met with, from its improvised and certainly undisguised character. Chamber No. 2 was closed by a wooden door, and contained one large coffin, of the plain, uninteresting type, constructed with square pillars at the corners,...
Pagina 99 - At length, however, the object was safely attained, and subsequently, in the upper air, the crude encrustation of bitumen peeled readily away from the outer wrappings of the mummy. At a very early stage of the process the bright glitter of the leaf of a golden chaplet aroused to the wildest pitch the extravagant speculations which the fellaheen always entertain with regard to the probable 'contents of tombs of considerable extent. The presence...
Pagina 147 - Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which caused terror in the land of the living.