CONTENTS OF VOL. II. The different classes of Egyptians-Third class :-The husbandmen Agriculture-Productions of Egypt-Harvest-Festivals of the peas- Fourth class:-Artificers, tradesmen or shopkeepers, musicians, build- ers, carpenters, boat-builders, masons, potters, public weighers and notaries, pounders Glass - False stones- Looms-Flax-Leather-Papyrus-Potters-Carpenters-Boxes- The fifth class:-Pastors, poulterers, shops, fowlers, fishermen, labour- ers, brickmakers, and common people—-Jews—People giving an ac- count of their mode of living-Laws Judges-Crimes and Punish- ments-Thieves-Debtors-Sales and deeds-Marriages-Parents- Lawgivers-Provinces and governors-Revenues-Gold-Mensura- LIST OF WOODCUTS IN VOL. II. Those with ** prefixed are new woodcuts; with * new woodcuts copied from lithographs of the previous work. ** Frontispiece. Mode of transporting a large colossus from the quarries. The statue is bound upon a sledge with ropes; on the knee stands a man beating time with his hands, and giving out a verse of a song; another stands on the base, and pours a green liquid, evidently grease, from a vase, before the sledge. In the upper line are companies of soldiers carrying green twigs; then four rows of men, forty-three in each, dragging the statue with ropes; and in the lowest line are others bearing implements, and vases of grease, or other liquids, followed by "superintendents," or task-masters; and behind the statue are other "superintendents," and perhaps reliefs of men. Vignette CHAPTER VI. H. Khónfud, or clod-crushing machine Woodcut 356. Shadóof for watering the lands 357. Cattle rescued from the inundation. 358. Sowing... 359. Ploughing and hoeing.. 360. Yoke of an ancient plough found in a tomb. 361. Wooden hoes.. 362. Wooden hoes in the Berlin Museum 363. Hoeing and sowing the land and felling trees 364. Pigs; rarely seen in the sculptures 365. Plants from the sculptures... -366. Ploughing, sowing, and reaping. 367. Harvest scene Page 1 4 6 12 13 15 16 17 18 18 36 40 41 Woodcut Page 42 43 44 45 47 373. The oxen driven round the heap; contrary to the usual custom.. 48 374. Gathering the Doora, and wheat... 50 375. Gathering the Doora, and stripping off the grain 51 376. Ostrich, with the feathers and eggs. 54 368. The Tritura. 369. Song of the threshers to the oxen. 370. Harvest scene 371. Tritura or threshing, and winnowing. 372. Wheat bound in sheaves ... Vignette I. The Nóreg, a machine used by the modern Egyptians for threshing corn Woodcut Vignette K. Modern boats of the Nile; on the opposite bank is a whirlwind of sand... 377. Glass-blowers CHAPTER VII. ... 378. Glass bottles, and a bead with the name of Amun-m-het.. 379. Bottles, and selvage of cloth 380. Chinese bottles found in the Egyptian tombs. The inquiry respecting these bottles, which has limited their date to a much later time than was formerly supposed, was instituted by Dr. Bowring, our Plenipotentiary in China; and Mr. Medhurst's paper is one of several on this curious question (see Trans. China Branch of R. Asiatic Soc., Part 3, 1851-2, p. 34) 381. A guard apparently with a lantern. 382. Women weaving and using the spindle.... 383. Men spinning and making a sort of network, horizontal loom, or perhaps mat-making 384. A piece of cloth on a frame, and an upright loom. 385. Spindles. 55 388. Netting-needle and wooden plane for smoothing cloth. **389. Goeffreying machine.... 86 87 88 386. Preparing flax; beating it, and making it into twine and cloth... 89 387. Wooden comb found with some tow 91 91 92 |