A

POPULAR ACCOUNT

OF

THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS.

REVISED AND ABRIDGED FROM HIS LARGER WORK,

John

BY SIR J. GARDNER WILKINSON, D.C.L., F.R.S., &c.

IN TWO VOLUMES.-VOL. II.

Illustrated with Fibe Hundred Woodcuts.

NEW EDITION.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

1874.

#3653

Sept. 9, 1889.
March Bequest,

LONDON:

PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS,
STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS.

CHAPTER VI.

The different classes of Egyptians - Third class:-The husbandmen

Productions of Egypt - Harvest Festivals of

the peasants - Gardeners, huntsmen, boatmen of the Nile

Agriculture

CONTENTS OF VOL. II.

CHAPTER VII.

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Fourth class :-Artificers, tradesmen or shopkeepers, musicians,

builders, carpenters, boatbuilders, masons, potters, public weighers

and notaries, pounders Glass - False stones Lamps - Fine

linen - Looms - Flax- Leather - Papyrus-Potters - Carpenters

- Boxes - Boats- Metals Tin Gold mines- Iron

― Casting — Stone knives - Pounding in mortars

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CHAPTER VIII.

The fifth class — Pastors, poulterers, shops, fowlers, fishermen, labourers,

brickmakers, and common people-Jews- People giving an account

of their mode of living-Laws - Judges - Crimes and punishments

- Thieves - Debtors - Sales and deeds - Marriages Parents-

Revenues Gold-Mensu-

Sothic year- Land mea-

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Lawgivers Provinces and governors ·

ration - Three seasons- - Intercalation

sures - Cubit - Weights and measures

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CHAPTER IX.

Egyptian art - Remains of Nineveh - Human figure - Drawing and

painting - Architecture -Orders of architecture Some devices

copied from nature-Too great symmetry avoided Use of large

stones Antiquity of the arch

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- Bricks Progress of architecture

Use of limestone Colossi - Monoliths - Machinery - Masons

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- Early Egyptian inventions - Dresses - Wigs - Dresses of women

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- Bronze

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- Ornaments - Ointments - Mirrors - Doctors - Magic

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CHAPTER X.

Offerings to the dead - Tombs - Funeral processions

Sacred lake

Burial

Embalming

-Trials of the dead

Sarcophagi - Papyri, &c.

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