Rhampsinitus probably the same as
Remeses III., i. 155.

-, story of the daughter of, i. 299.
treasury of, i. 15, 155.

strength of the trap set in the,
ii. 182.

Rhyton, or drinking-cup, i. 153, 154.
in form of a cock's head, i. 153.
Ring-finger, third of the left hand,
ii. 337.

Rings, ii. 336, 339, 341.

Robbers, chief of the, a man of in-
tegrity, like their modern Shekh, ii.
216.

Romans, state of Egypt under the, ii.
233.

Roof of houses of palm branches and
mud, i. 7; ii. 280, 281.

i. 7.

they slept in summer on the,

and floors of palm-tree beams,
i. 18.
Roofs vaulted, i. 18; ii. 301, 302, 303.
Ropes of flax and date fibres, and of

twisted leather, ii. 93.

Rose, or rhodon. See Pomegranate.
Rot-n-n, a people of Asia, i. 153,
395-397.

women of the, i. 397, 398, 416.
tribute of the, i. 397.
mentioned with Nahrayn, or
Mesopotamia, i. 397. See Gloves.
vases of the, i. 153.

brought bitumen to Egypt,

called zift, i. 397.

Rudders of boats, ii. 125, 129.

Sabaco, i. 308.

raised the towns, especially
Bubastis, to protect them from the
inundation, ii. 9.

Sabæism not part of the Egyptian re-
ligion, i. 328.

Sacred music, instruments of, i. 129–
133, 108, 109.

rites. See Religion.

scribe, dress of the, i. 334.
trees and vegetables, i. 256.
animals, i. 245-256.
emblems, i. 257.

fêtes, or festivals, i. 272, 286,
288, 296-301.

dancing, i. 140.

Sacred, subjects in painting had pre-
scribed rules, ii. 264, 266.
Sacrifice, i. 264. See Offerings.

daily in the temple, attended by
the king, i. 281.

after victory, i. 279, 416.
Sacrifices, human, not in Egypt, i. 411.
Sagdas. See Psagda.

Sails of some boats, of the papyrus,
resembling those of the Chinese, i.
413, 414.

furled in ships of war, i. 412.
Sailors of Egypt, i. 411.

See Boatmen.

of the fleet, or "king's ships,"
ranked with the soldiers, i. 411; ii.
55.

Sails of modern lighters and Ethio-
pian boats, ii. 126. See Boats.
Saïs, city of, i. 296, 298, 239.
lake of, i. 298.
nome of, i. 337.

monolith, ii. 55, 309, 310.
Saïte Dynasty, Kings, i. 309.
Salt sometimes excluded from the
tables of the priests, i. 324.
Sandals of the priests, i. 335.

of women and others, ii. 331–333.
Sands, error respecting the great en-
croachment of the, i. 306.
Sandstone generally used after the
12th dynasty, ii. 306.

Sapt, "the chosen part," i. 264.
Saracenic architecture, progress of,
ii. 305.

gave us the pointed arch, ii. 305.
Sarapeum of Memphis discovered, i.

292.

Sarapis, temple of, i. 292.
Sarcophagi, ii. 397, 398.
Sarcophagus, ii. 368, 374.
Satan, the Manichæan, i. 330.

Saviour, portrait of the, ii. 198.
Saw, ii. 113, 114, 118.

Sawing, mode of, ii. 114, 118.

Saxon, Norman, and Lombard styles,
ii. 305.

Scales for weighing, ii. 136.

gold, ii. 151, 152.
Scarabæi, ii. 341, 335, 397.
Scarabæus, or beetle, i. 255.
Sceptre hereditary, i. 310.

of Queens, i. 276.

Sceptres of Osiris, i. 257, 266; ii. 381.
Science in Egypt advanced by the
effects of the Nile, ii. 248-250.

already advanced in time of
Menes, ii. 251, 287.

had a helmet with horns, i. 390.
Shart, a people of northern Arabia,
i. 396.

name of the Red Sea, i. 396.

Shaved their beards, priests, ii. 327.
their whole body, ii. 327.
heads of children, ii. 328.

Sheaves bound up, ii, 47.
Shekel, meaning weight, ii. 148.
Sheep, fear of diminishing the stock
of, i. 166.

large flocks of, i. 166; ii. 172.
valuable for their wool, i. 166.

slung at the back, i. 346, 347.
concave form of the, i. 347.

covered with hide, i. 345.

a light kind of, perhaps foreign,
i. 348.

a large kind of, i. 349.

Shields of the Egyptians used by the
Greeks for firewood, i. 345.

made of hide of hippopotamus
and crocodile, i. 240.

Shinar (Shingar, Sinjar), tribute from,
i. 397.

Ships of war, i. 411-413; ii. 130.

rigging of, i. 412, 414; ii. 130.
of Sesostris in the Arabian Gulf,
i. 411; ii. 133.

of great size, ii. 131, 132.
originally mere rafts, ii. 132.
Shishak pillaged temple of Jerusalem,
i. 308, 340. See Sheshonk.
Shoemakers and curriers, ii. 103.
Shops, ii. 103, 184.

name and occupation of the
owner put up over, ii. 105.
"Shrine of King Ptolemy," i. 268.
Shrines, or arks, or sacred boats, i.
267-272, 284, 285.

procession of, i. 267–270.
golden, i. 268.

Sieges of fortified towns, i. 387-390.
Sieves of string, the oldest of rushes,
ii. 95.

Sift. See Zift.

Silence, Egyptian mode of indicating,
ii. 182.

God of. See Harpocrates.
Silsilis, large quarries at, ii. 306.
Silver, use of, for money in Abra-
ham's time, ii. 148, 240.

241.

called "white gold," ii. 147,
See Gold.

Silver, hieroglyphic signifying, ii.
149. (Woodcut, fig. c.)

much used for money, ii. 147.
soon followed gold, ii. 148.
thread and wire, ii. 82.

Simple dress of the Egyptians, like a
River God's, ii. 320.

Simpula, or ladles, i. 184, 185.

with a hinge, i. 184, 185.

Simsim, or sesame, gives an oil, ii. 23,
26, 31.

Sincere," expɩns, ii. 80.

Singing and music after dinner, i. 188.
See Music and Songs.

at work, ii. 308.

a solo, i. 92.

Single-stick, i. 206, 207.

Siphons, i. 174, 175; ii. 317, 318.
Sistrum, i. 131-133.

held by women, i. 133.

has been found, i. 132, 133.
Sitting on their heels, i. 58.
Sketches made on pieces of stone,
board, &c., ii. 99, 276.

Skins imported into Egypt and part
of tribute, ii. 105, 106.

tanning and curing, ii. 102, 106.
Skins. See Leopard skins; see Water
skins; see Prizes.

Slave, a black woman, holding a plate
in the way the African women now
do, i. 141.

208.

murder of a, capital offence, ii.

Slaves, black and white, i. 416, 417;
ii. 225.

traffic in, customary in those
days, i. 417.

the Jews also had, i. 417.
Caucasian, like the modern Cir-
cassian, i. 418.

treatment of, i. 417.
children by, ii. 225.
Slaughtering for the table, i. 169.
Sling, i. 357, 419.

looked upon with contempt by
some of the Greeks, i. 357.

used by some of the Greeks. i.
358.

the people of the Bale: ic

Steelyard of Roman time, ii. 152.
Steersman a high office, ii. 55.
Steward, or overseer of lands, i. 32;
ii. 4.

Stick. See Throw-stick; see Walk-
ing-stick.

Sticks, fights with, i. 206-209, 298.
Stimulants for drinking, i. 53.
Stone, large blocks of, used in other
countries as well as in Egypt, ii.
299.

knives of early time, and long
retained, ii. 163, 164.

on a sledge, taken from a quarry,
ii. 306.

mode of squaring, ii. 313, 315.
Stones of very great size taken by
land, ii. 307, 309.

Stones on sledges, ii. 306.

-, transport of large, ii. 307–312.

mode of squaring, ii. 313, 315.

dragged for Temple of Isis, ii.

men condemned to hew, ii. 307.
Stools, i. 58, 61-65, 67.

VOL. II.

Stranger Kings, i. 308, 330, 403.
Straw for provender, ii. 48.

in making bricks, ii. 194.

String, instruments of one, i. 125.
Strings of catgut, i. 111, 118, 122, 125.
not of wire, i. 125.

mode of shortening, by a neck,
i. 84.

limited to three, shows an im-
provement in music, i. 84.
Styx, the dead who remained on the
wrong side of the, ii. 377.
Suez. See Sooez.

Sun, worship of the, i. 328, 329, 339.
distinct from Sabæism, i. 328.

festivals in honour of the, i.
296, 298, 300, 301.

worship introduced by the
Stranger kings, i. 308.

worshipped at Heliopolis, i. 331.
See Helipolis. See Phrah.

the bull Mnevis said to be sa-
cred to the, i. 289.

Superintendents of cattle, a high post,
ii. 176, 178.

Surveying, land, or mensuration, ii.
248.

Swineherds in Egypt and India
despised, ii. 2.

most ignoble, ii. 169.
Swine. See Pig.

Swords and daggers, i. 358, 419.
Sycamore, i. 44, 57, 259; ii. 27, 37,
110.

figs heavenly fruit, i. 181.
figs if eaten supposed to ensure
a return to Egypt, ii. 110.

tree sacred to Netpe, i. 256;

383.
Symmetry avoided, ii. 296.
riety.

Symphony, the triple, i. 86.
Syringe, ii. 318.

ii.

See Va-

Table for dinner, i. 167, 179, 128.
not covered with linen, i. 179.
mode of sitting at, i. 179.

Tables, i. 69, 70, 167, 179, 182, 190.
brought in and removed with the
dishes, i. 180, 181.

Tables, offerings in the tombs on
small, ii. 362.

2 F

l'abret, or timbrel (the Taph of the

Jews), i. 129, 130, 140.
Talent, ii. 259, 260.
Tamarisk, ii. 37.

wood, use of, ii. 110.

tree, sacred to Osiris, i. 256.

Tambourine, i. 98, 129.

of various kinds, i. 129.
used in sacred music, i. 129.
played by goddesses, i. 129.
Tanning skins; pods of the acacia
(sent), bark of séáleh and rhus, for,
ii. 106.

Tapestry (tapeta) carpets, ii. 92.
Taste, ii. 288, 239. See Inapplicable-

reported what they stole, and to
whom the person robbed applied,
ii. 216.

Thimble-rig, i. 203.

This, the Thinite dynasty, i. 307.
Thomson, Mr., on linen and mummy
cloths, ii. 73-77, 79, 80.

Thoth, the Mercury or Hermes of
Egypt, i. 274, 275.

books of Hermes, or, i. 274.
fête of, i. 299.

the intellect, i. 123.
-month of, i. 299.

the Moon and God of letters,
with an Ibis head, i. 328.

answered to Time, ii. 381.
Thothmes, the kings, i. 308.

III., i. 153, 308, 395, 397, 399, 418.
rising of Sothis in reign of, and
date of, ii. 255.

Threshers, song of the, ii. 43.
Threshing. See Wheat; see Ornan.
Throwstick, i. 235, 237.

not on the principle of the boo-
merang of Australia, i. 235.
Thummim. See Truth.

Thyrsus carried by the priests, i. 391.
suggested by the staff or ivy-
bound flower, i. 285.

Tiles, glazed, ii. 288, 292.
Tin, early use of, ii. 133, 134.

taken to the Isle of Wight as a
depôt, ii. 135.

called Kassiteros in Greek, and
Kastira in Sanscrit, ii. 133.

sought in Britain by the Phoni-
cians, ii. 134, 135.

some found in Spain even now,
ii. 134.
Tirhaka, i. 308.

captives of, i. 393, 395–398.
Tnephachthus' curse of Menes, i. 173.
Toersha, a people of Asia, i. 398.
Toes, a strap held between the, ii. 104.
Tokkari, an Asiatic people, i. 392.
carts of the, i. 392.
Tomb of Remeses III., i. 77, 108.

some not allowed to be buried
in their own, i. 314, 325; ii. 376, 379.
Tombs and funeral rites, ii. 356-400.
visit of women to the (as at
present), i. 93; ii. 364.

of the kings, i. 394.

of poor people, ii. 365.

all finished except the name of
the owner, and ready for sale, ii. 363.
seals of the, ii. 364.