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Transport of Obelisks
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Egypt Exploration Fund, [6]: Excavations at Deir el Bahari
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The excavations of this season at Deir el Bahari were not on a large
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comparisons for our guidance in seeking to ascertain how the architect
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excavations in the soil of this court and along the outside of the shrine
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from the walls of the temple, there could be no doubt that the tomb
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Outside, on box and lid, are lines of blue hieroglyphs giving the name
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glyphic. In the coffin had been left pieces of a very thick cartonnnge,
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of the earthly life of the deceased, and were intended to answer
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together into a corner with the bricks of the door in order to make
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transporting stone or perhaps for lowering heavy coffins along the inclined
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thick longitudinal plank of sycamore wood, and not from a section across
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the dayT, and often at night by candle-light.
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and some of them were built into the wall of the kitchen of the Coptic
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As Illustrated by a Bas-Relief in the Temple of Deir el Bahaki.
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the manner in which colossal statues and obelisks were transported on
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and some of them were built into the wall of the kitchen of the Coptic
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As Illustrated by a Bas-Relief in the Temple of Deir el Bahaki.
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the manner in which colossal statues and obelisks were transported on
Egypt Exploration Fund, [7]: Transport of Obelisks, as illustrated by a Bas-Relief in the temple of Deir el Bahari
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tion. The names of the officers who are supposed to perform
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"sycamores from the whole land.
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- I am indebted to Dr. Sethe's kindness for the reading of the rare sign akh.
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in order to ship them both; thus the length of the boat was three times
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in winter they would have less difficulty in hauling the obelisks on shore
Egypt Exploration Fund, [8]: Cities of the Faiyûm, Kanaris and Bacchias
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Cities of the Faiyum:.
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undertaken in good time, and it was resumed for a short week at the end
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and with a superimposed mass of rubbish, resulting from Bedawin occupa-
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v. On the base of a lion :
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but we succeeded in unearthing from both a certain number of papyri,
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(b) A long Latin document, found among the sand in a rifled tomb
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massacre, and from the style appears to be a composition of the lato
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an Attic orator. Judging by the popularity of Hyperides in Egypt as
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These five papyri were all written about the same period, the second
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Cities op the Faiytjm.
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the desert, we struck our tents and moved seven miles eastward to Kum el
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Here again we had houses, tombs, and a temple to explore. ■ The houses
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figures in relief), and so forth. Coins were legion. Under the brick
Progress of Egyptology, [11]: Archeology, Hieroglyphic Studies, etc.
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Explobations have been actively carried on in Egypt during the past year.
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two terrible volumes. Naturally such work is most noticeable from
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irritating than the most unjustifiable publications issued at the private
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tions, conducted as they are with method and guided by the keenest
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Thothmes IV., Merenptah, Siptah, and the queen, Tausert. His most
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Thebes was a general centre of operations during the last season. Besides
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At Philae, Captain Lyons, while surveying for the Egyptian Govern-
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proved to be that of the eldest son of Shashanq I., a statue dedicated by
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At Lisht, M. Gautier, in investigating the surroundings of the south
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Kum Ombo. At Kum er Resras, on the west bank a little south of
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The sebakk-diggers of Elephantine have uncovered a graffito of Khufu-
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We must also mention Mr. Newberry's work in the Theban necropolis.
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two fragmentary duplicates of the great inscription which details the
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It is reported that a French Society connected with the Musee
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Kojotos, by W. M. F. Petrie, is a publication of the results of work at
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Philae. The very obscure hieroglyphic portion of the trilingual
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From Thebes, east bank—
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Burton and preserved in the British Museum ; Griffith, Mg. Zeit.
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From west bank—
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without indication of their provenance, we may note the following from
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statue A 93. Bevillout, Rev. Egypt, vii. p. Ill; stelae of the XXIInd,
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from the important Demetrio collection, including the inscription of
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a careful copy of the tablet of Palermo, one of the most extraordinary
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documents that we possess of the Old Kingdom. Its existence has been
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The principal publication has been that of the account papyri in the
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examples: the Papyrus Hood and some small fragments at St. Peters-
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latter is now almost complete. The Professor has published a good
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After an interval of one year, the second volume of Professor Maspero's
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Daressy, Bsc. de Trav. xvii. p. 113, gives a list of the names of the
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he chooses especially the form of the royal titles and the shape of the
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reference to Jequier's essay on the historical results of the excavations.
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Borchardt, JEg. Zeit. xxxiii. p. 142, suggests that the name of Khyan
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elaborate treatise on the succession of the kings Thothmes I.—III. and
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upon which the genealogy must be largely based, is the work of
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Petbte, Proc. Soc. Bib. Arch, xviii. p. 56, examines the succession of
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Mallet, Bcc. de Trav. xviii. p. 4, describes an interesting stela of the
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The chronology of the Egyptian dynasties has been the subject of
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in Petrie's History, vol. i., from an astronomical point of view, and in
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mit cler Biblisclien, attempts to reconcile the Biblical with the Egyptian
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There has not been much work in this branch during the year, although
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Edom or Palestine, mentioned in the story of Sanehat. Cf. Offobd,
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Professor Sayce has found the Hyksos god Sufcekh named ou a
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there written (j(J w (j ^^<=^=> ^] ^ with the determinative of a
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we can form no conclusion from these statements as to the relation
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xviii. p. 76, cf. Hommel, p. 17, and Delattre, p. 71. The name of " Bdl,
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Daressy publishes a representation of Phoenician ships from a tomb
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graffito from Silsileh, and Darbssy, I.e., p. 120, a bilingual hieroglyphic
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Schaper, JEg. Zeit. xxxiii. p. 61 et seqq., has occupied himself with the
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Dumhler in Jahrb. des Instit. 1895, p. 35, has discussed the Greek
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C. Tore, Memphis and, Myhenae, having brought down the date of the
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Deeenboukg has written an account of the recently discovered epitaph
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to the Pyramid texts in his JEgyplologische Studien. The letters now
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Maspeeo, Bee. de Trav. xviii. p. 53, devotes an article to the vocaliza-
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certain words in the Pyramid texts ; but it is impossible to follow him in
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to recognize the existence of a certain rare negative form mentioned in
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the help of Rabbinical Hebrew. He also traces the origin of a Hebrew,
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Sir P. Lepage Renouf, continuing his translation of the Book of the
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the representation of an Egyptian festival in Graeco-Egyptian times.
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the meaning of the " double " represented in certain religious scenes, and
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The second series of Petrie's Egyptian Tales has now appeared, and
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the Ancient Egyptian plant remains preserved in the Louvre. Unfortu-
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Beadvisage, Bee. de Trav. xviii. p. 78, having examined the wood of
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the course by which Ancient Egyptian medicine entered Egypt through
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contributions to the Egyptian metrology that have appeared since his
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different ages. Professor Eisenlohr quotes the Palermo stone just pub-
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length on Egyptian metrology, and here publishes, by the way, a fragment
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through a number of possessors during the Old Kingdom, from the lists
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gives an interesting sketch of the conduct of the labourers in the
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Petrie, Egyptian Decorative Art, analyzes and traces the origin and
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the plant symbolical of Lower Egypt; he takes the certainly erroneous
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Eeman, Mg. Zeit. xxxiii. p. 18, publishes two exquisite reliefs from
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statue of the Posno collection. He deals at some length with the treat-
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F. C. J. Spureell, Arch. Journ., 1896, p. 46, describes the method
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nowhere else, they were ground to a smooth surface before the exquisite
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Somees Clarke has contributed an illustrated article on the methods
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C. Belgee, Mg. Zeit. xxxiii. p. 24, examines the construction of the
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bowls found by Petrie at Gurob, were for washing the face, the inscrip-
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An English edition of the Illustrated Catalogue of the National Museum
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It is stated that the Coptic ecclesiastical authorities have consented
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from those of ours; they will attach importance to points of view undreamed of by
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ment unless a director and staff be appointed to deal exclusively with the manage-
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any previous training for the work, but who are also destitute of any scientific
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" One very obvious injury resulting from hasty excavation is that inflicted on the
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Who that has visited the Pyramids does not remember the dismal aspect presented
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tombs repeatedly ransacked and plundered, some scattered .remains of the floral
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"The inconspicuous material for research into natural history is lost in the hunt
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is about as effective for preservation as it would be to pack up the tubes of a
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Dr. Schweinfurth proceeds to point out as highly characteristic of the condition
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tombs repeatedly ransacked and plundered, some scattered .remains of the floral
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"The inconspicuous material for research into natural history is lost in the hunt
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is about as effective for preservation as it would be to pack up the tubes of a
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Dr. Schweinfurth proceeds to point out as highly characteristic of the condition
Progress of Egyptology, [12]: Graeco-Roman Egypt
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Mahaffy's history of the empire of the Ptolemies. Some account of
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Mahaffy has prefixed an introduction, contains the text of a very long
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a separate document, though they are now joined together. The first
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between the cost of manufacturing the oil (which was fixed) and the sum
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cases it was at a discount of about ten per cent. (2) At the beginning of
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the true exchange ratio, and that the ratio of metal value, from the
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.pio_sg_poem, of the second century b.c., in contents resembling the
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on vellum and the rest on papyrus, containing loans, sales, accounts,
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marriage contracts, and leases. The manner of publication resembles
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the Rainer papyri has at last begun. A volume of facsimiles is promised
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(Nos. 493-510) ; part of the record of an Alexandrian embassy, to the
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the poll-tax, but who succeeded iu asserting his rights on appeal
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over the Greek, as well as the native Egyptian, period can afford to
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forcibly removing from justice certain persons charged with brigandage ;
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of the same sort among- the papyri under his control, but for these and
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addition to our palaeographical knowledge, documents of the fourth
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three different kinds of artaba (the principal dry measure of capacity in
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nounced and given provisional texts of the interesting triple inscription
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H. G. Lyons, R.E., the discoverer, and Dr. Borchardt.18 Four Latin
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be added that the new edition of Professor Lumbroso's invaluable
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is attached to a recent article on the papyri of Messrs. M ah a fry and
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and of great palaeographical value. A second volume of the Greek
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1 Revenue Laws of Ptolemy Philadelphus, edited from a Greek papyrus. . . . by
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8 The Empire of the Ptolemies, by J. P. Mahalfy. (London, 1895.)
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13 On Two Inscriptions from Dimeh, in Hermathena, ix. 160 (1895); A new
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19 Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology, xviii. 107-109.
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1. Biblical and Apocryphal. Dr. A. Sehulte lias during the past year
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an elaborate description of some half-dozen fragments of the New
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19 Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology, xviii. 107-109.
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1. Biblical and Apocryphal. Dr. A. Sehulte lias during the past year
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an elaborate description of some half-dozen fragments of the New
Progress of Egyptology, [13]: Coptic Studies
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The Rev. H. Goussen, of Strassburg, has rendered a service to all New
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Prof. Hyvernat, who has published so little of late years, begins in the
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connection with these texts is that, unlike most of the apocrypha otherwise
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details regarding the ornamentation of the various MSS., which will
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One of the most interesting publications of the year is also one of the
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probably be in favour of the latter ascription. The work apparently relates
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Dr. von Lemm continues his successful endeavours to identify the
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demonstrated the fact of the existence of such a work some years ago.
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of some apparently hopeless remains, not inconsiderable passages from
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Dr. Griitzmacher, of Freiburg, from his previous studies of Benedict
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several very interesting and otherwise, no doubt, obsolete words, the
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IV. —GOSHEN, AND THE SHRINE OF SAFT-EL-HENNEH. Memoir
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V.—TANIS.—Part II., including TELL DEFENNEH (the Biblical
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VII.—THE CITY OF ONIAS AND THE MOUND OF THE JEW. The
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IX.—TWO HIEROGLYPHIC PAPYRI FROM TANIS. An extra Volume.
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and the TOMB OF PAHERI AT EL KAB. By J. .1. Tylor and F. Ll.
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At Philae, Captain Lyons, while surveying for the Egyptian Govern-
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proved to be that of the eldest son of Shashanq I., a statue dedicated by
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At Lisht, M. Gautier, in investigating the surroundings _ '' " ■ 11
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Kum Ombo. At Kum er Resras, on the west bank a 1E ^
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The sebakh-diggers of Elephantine have uncovered a grafl E
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We must also mention Mr. Newberry's work in the Theb -
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two fragmentary duplicates of the great inscription whit =—
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It is reported that a French Society connected wit =-
Transport of Obelisks, from a bas-relief at Deir el Bahari (see p. 6).
Restored from the fragments and drawn by Madame Naville,
Restored from the fragments and drawn by Madame Naville,