Howard-Vyse, Richard William Howard: Operations carried on at the Pyramids of Gizeh in 1837: with an account of a voyage into upper Egypt, and Appendix (Band 1) (London, 1840)

rural occupations, are also described, and explained by
appropriate hieroglyphics. The third tomb from the
north has similar columns and decorations; and in one
of them a group of strangers is portrayed, amongst whom
are women, and children carried in panniers on asses, and
an ibis, and ostriches are presented to a king.5 This
drawing has been supposed, (but it appears__

without much probability,) to represent the
arrival of the Israelites in the time of Osir-
tesen I.; whose cartouche is inscribed in
various parts of the hieroglyphics, together,
however, with several others, which belonged
to later monarchs. The same columns ap-
pear in the two adjoining excavations, which

have not been finished; and it is remarkable, that although
they are also to be seen in the most southern, that,
in the intermediate tombs, the pillars peculiarly called
Egyptian, with capitals composed of the flowers of the
lotus, (and in this instance of extremely bad proportions,)
have been introduced. Many of the excavations com-
municate with each other, and in most of them are shafts,
and niches for the reception of mummies, but, in general,
they do not appear to have been completed: some of
them have been furnished with stone doors. The view
from the terrace in front of these sepulchres is very ex-
tensive, and comprehends the river studded with fertile
islands, a plain to the southward interspersed with the
ruins of several Arab villages,6 and also a chain of hills,

* Some of the strangers are clothed in party-coloured garments,
that bring to recollection Joseph's coat of many colours.

6 These villages had been plundered by the Mamelucs, and also by
the French, &c., in 1800; and several had been abandoned on account