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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.
#3453
Sept. 9, 1889.
March Bequest.
LONDON:
PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS,
STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS.
CONTENTS OF VOL. II.
CHAPTER VI.
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- Festivals of
The different classes of Egyptians - Third class:-The husbandmen
– Agriculture — Productions of Egypt - Harvest
the peasants - Gardeners, huntsmen, boatmen of the Nile
CHAPTER VII.
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
Metals-Tin - Gold mines · Iron - Bronze
Casting-Stone knives - Pounding in mortars
- Boxes
- Boats
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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 -
Lawgivers Provinces and governors - Revenues -Gold-Mensu-
ration - Three seasons - Intercalation Sothic year Land mea-
Cubit - Weights and measures
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CHAPTER IX.
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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
- Bricks
Antiquity of the arch
-Early Egyptian inventions - Dresses Wigs-Dresses of women
-Ornaments - Ointments - Mirrors - Doctors - Magic
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CHAPTER X.
Funeral rites - Offerings to the dead - Tombs - Funeral processions
-Trials of the dead Sacred lake Burial
Sarcophagi - Papyri, &c.
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Embalming -
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