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Wilkinson, John Gardner; Birch, Samuel [Contr.]
The Egyptians in the time of the pharaohs: being a companion to the Crystal Palace Egyptian collections — London, 1857

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INDEX.

Greeks borrowed from Egypt, 156,161.
------borrowed and improved upon it,

161, 162.
Guano of pigeon-bouses used in

Egypt, 72. _
Guests, reception of —, 8, 9.
Guilloche, scroll, cbevron, &c, 15S.
Guitar, 26.

Habits and pursuits, tbe same of
old as in after times, in Egypt, 3,163.

Hair, lock of—,wombyyoungmen,40.

------ of slaves differently dressed from

tbat of ladies, 111.

Hall of Assembly, 145.

Harps and barpers, 21.

Harvest scene, 72, 75.

Head stools, or pillows of wood, 39.

Hermes statues, from Egypt, 160.

Historical subjects on tbe walls of
temples, 135.

Horse in England and witb tbe Arabs,
77.

Hounds from Etbiopia, some —, 81.

House and its offices, arrangement of
the—, 65.

------witb courts, 66.

■------witb a tower, 66.

Houses of crude brick, 68.

Human sacrifices not iu Egypt, 135.

Hunting, 76, 81, 84.

------■, lions trained for —, 76.

Hyprethral building before large tem-
ples, 143, 145.

Ideal beauty first comprehended by
the Greeks, 119.

Inkstand of scribes and painters, 120.

Instruments of music, various —, 19,
22.

------, stringed, invention of—, 24.

------, first idea of shortening strings

of musical —, 25.

------of festivity, 28.

------of sacred music, 21, 28.

------, surgical—, 122, 124.

Inundation, cattle rescued from tbe —,
77.

Inventions of early time in Egypt, as
the blow-pipe, bellows, valve, si-
phon, syringe, and apparently a
sort of hand-pump, 103.

Inventions and discoverieslongknown,
attributed to the Greeks, 101, 102.

------and discoveries often older than

wo imagine, 100, 101.

Ionic volute, origin of the—, 155,157.

Iron, early use of—, 99, 100.

Jews affected by tbe policy of Egypt

and Assyria, 4.
■------, effect of the afflictions of the

-4.

------, dancing among the—, 30, 31.

------, figures in the tombs of the kings

mistaken for —, 132.

Joint, the fore-leg and shoulder the
first and chosen, 32.

Judgment, the final, commonly repre-
sented, 130.

King, the head of the religion, 127

------represented of colossal size, 134.

------if bad, denied the right of burial

in his own tomb, 130.
Kitchen, 34.
Knives of different forms, 123.

------and forks not used at table, 34.

Kohl boxes, 110, 111.

Laws and institutions at early
periods, 11.

Leather-cutters a large class of work-
men, 114, 115.

------, the use of—, 117.

Legs of chairs, stools, and tables
ornamented, 38.

Linen of extreme fineness, 40, 41.

.------ witb coloured borders and pat-
terns, 41.

------for dresses and for burial, 39.

Lions trained for hunting, 76.

Lock of hair of young men, 40.

Looms like those of modern Ethiopia,
104.

Lyres, 22, 23.

------, mode of tuning —, 23.

Mankind, four races of, represented,

132.
Master and mistress -of the house at a

party, 8.
Materials influencing architecture,

137.
 
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