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Naville, Edouard: Egypt Exploration Fund, [7]: Transport of Obelisks, as illustrated by a Bas-Relief in the temple of Deir el Bahari
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Egypt Expoloration Fund
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Contents
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
Transport of Obelisks
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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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Maßstab/Farbkeil
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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.
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" the inhabitants of the nome of Aphroditopolis and of all Egypt are
"collected in one place on all sides enlisting the young soldiers/' the
military escort of the expedition which will be seen afterwards parading
on shore.
All the middle part relating the journey to Elephantine and the
loading of the obelisks is lost, for the lines which come next describe
the arrival at Thebes and the landing.
" the descent of the river was made with joy.
" when was taken the cable (?) there was rejoicing.
" (when they arrived) in peace, the king himself (i.e. the queen) preceded."
The last lines describe the rejoicings in the land, and the rewards
bestowed on the queen by the gods. The horizontal text in the lowest
register also states that the whole scene represents the end of the
voyage, when the obelisks, towed by a great number of boats, and
escorted by military and royal barges, arrive at Thebes : " The landing
in peace at Thebes the mighty, there is a festival in the sky, Egypt is
in rejoicing .... is in joy, when they see this monument everlasting
(which the queen) erected to her father (Amon)."
The numerous gaps in the representation compel us to leave a great
deal to conjecture ; however, owing to the minute accuracy of the
Egyptian sculptors, we are able to form an idea of the procedure of
the great flotilla.
Although we see only one obelisk, the inscription tells us that there
were two, and as we shall see later they probably were loaded on the
same boat. The boat itself is called ff553 depet. As for its con-
struction, we can see what it was, since below in one of the inscriptions
the boat is represented as the determinative sign to its name. This sign
has been reproduced in full size (at o). It shows the obelisk lying
under a kind of awning which is supported by four poles, and which,
judging from the large representation, is formed by thick ropes ending
near the deck-house by which the officers are standing.
What was the size of this vessel ? Possibly its dimensions were given
in the part of the inscription which has been lost ; but we can derive
some information as to its probable dimensions from a text which is
nearly contemporaneous. It is the biography of an officer called Anna,
who lived under the three Thothmes, and who enjoyed the favour of
Hatshepsu.' He relates that having to bring two obelisks for the King
Thothmes I., he built a boat of 120 cubits in length and 40 in width,
1 Reeueil, vol. xii. p. 106.
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" the inhabitants of the nome of Aphroditopolis and of all Egypt are
"collected in one place on all sides enlisting the young soldiers/' the
military escort of the expedition which will be seen afterwards parading
on shore.
All the middle part relating the journey to Elephantine and the
loading of the obelisks is lost, for the lines which come next describe
the arrival at Thebes and the landing.
" the descent of the river was made with joy.
" when was taken the cable (?) there was rejoicing.
" (when they arrived) in peace, the king himself (i.e. the queen) preceded."
The last lines describe the rejoicings in the land, and the rewards
bestowed on the queen by the gods. The horizontal text in the lowest
register also states that the whole scene represents the end of the
voyage, when the obelisks, towed by a great number of boats, and
escorted by military and royal barges, arrive at Thebes : " The landing
in peace at Thebes the mighty, there is a festival in the sky, Egypt is
in rejoicing .... is in joy, when they see this monument everlasting
(which the queen) erected to her father (Amon)."
The numerous gaps in the representation compel us to leave a great
deal to conjecture ; however, owing to the minute accuracy of the
Egyptian sculptors, we are able to form an idea of the procedure of
the great flotilla.
Although we see only one obelisk, the inscription tells us that there
were two, and as we shall see later they probably were loaded on the
same boat. The boat itself is called ff553 depet. As for its con-
struction, we can see what it was, since below in one of the inscriptions
the boat is represented as the determinative sign to its name. This sign
has been reproduced in full size (at o). It shows the obelisk lying
under a kind of awning which is supported by four poles, and which,
judging from the large representation, is formed by thick ropes ending
near the deck-house by which the officers are standing.
What was the size of this vessel ? Possibly its dimensions were given
in the part of the inscription which has been lost ; but we can derive
some information as to its probable dimensions from a text which is
nearly contemporaneous. It is the biography of an officer called Anna,
who lived under the three Thothmes, and who enjoyed the favour of
Hatshepsu.' He relates that having to bring two obelisks for the King
Thothmes I., he built a boat of 120 cubits in length and 40 in width,
1 Reeueil, vol. xii. p. 106.
C