A Popular Account of the Ancient Egyptians: Revised and Abridged from His Larger Work, Volume 2

Harper & brothers, 1854

CHAPTER	1

The Tritura	42

Song of the threshers to the oxen	43

Harvest scene	44

Tritura or threshing and winnowing	45

Wheat bound in sheaves	47

The oxen driven round the heap contrary to the usual custom	48

Gathering the Doora and wheat	50

Golden baskets in the tomb of Remeses III	140

Kabbáneh or public weighers and notaries	148

Rings of gold and silver	149

Vases of the time of Thothmes III	162

Flint knives	164

Pounding various substances in stone mortars with metal pestles	166

Vignette L Boats with coloured and embroidered sails from the tomb of Remeses III at Thebes	167

The fifth classPastors poulterers shops fowlers fishermen labour	168

Gathering the Doora and stripping off the grain	51

Ostrich with the feathers and eggs	54

The Nóreg a machine used by the modern Egyptians for thresh ing corn 55	55

CHAPTER VII	56

Glassblowers	58

Glass bottles and a bead with the name of Amunmhet	59

Bottles and selvage of cloth	68

A guard apparently with a lantern	72

Women weaving and using the spindle	85

Men spinning and making a sort of network horizontal loom or perhaps matmaking	86

A piece of cloth on a frame and an upright loom	87

Spindles	88

Preparing flax beating it and making it into twine and cloth	89

Wooden comb found with some tow	91

389 Goeffreying machine	92

Part 1 Cutting and twisting thongs of leather	94

Currier holding a strap of leather with his toes	104

Part 1 Shoemakers	105

Fullers	106

Potters earthenware vases	108

Carpenters tools and the basket that held them	112

Veneering and the use of glue	114

Different boxes	116

Bandaging mummies and making the cases	118

399 Making a papyrus boat	120

CHAPTER VIII	123

Boats for carrying cattle and goods	124

Boat of the Nile showing how the sail was fastened to the yards and the nature of the rigging	128

Goldsmiths fusing weighing and other processes	137

Goldsmiths	138

Blowpipe and small fireplace	139

Modern ovens for hatching eggs	170

Herdsmen and poulterers treating sick animals and geese	173

Geese brought and numbered	174

A deformed oxherd	175

Giving an account to two scribes of the stock on the estate	176

Herdsmen giving an account of the cattle	177

Cattle goats asses and sheep with their numbers over them	179

Birdtraps	180

Fishing and fowling scenes	181

Clapnets from the sculptures	183

A poulterers shop	184

Fowlers catching geese and poulterers	185

Fishing with ground bait	186

Fishing with a dragnet	187

Leads with part of a net	188

A sort of landingnet	189

Bringing in fish and preparing them for salting	190

The oxyrhinchus fish in bronze	191

A bronze Lepidotus	192

Foreign captives employed in making bricks at Thebes	196

434 Features of two of the brickmakers	198

Persons coming to be registered	200

The Goddess of Truth and Justice	205

The bastinado	211

Workmen beaten	212

Bastinado for petty theft	215

The 12 Egyptian months	253

Vignette N Pointed arch at Tusculum in Italy built while the Kings ruled at Rome?	261

CHAPTER IX	262

Woodcut 444 Egyptian mode of drawing the human figure in squares on a wall showing the proportions during the 18th and 19th dynas ties	267

A scribe writing on a tablet	276

Titre	A Popular Account of the Ancient Egyptians: Revised and Abridged from His Larger Work, Volume 2 Volume 2 de A Popular Account of the Ancient Egyptians, John Gardner Wilkinson A Popular Account of the Ancient Egyptians: Revised and Abridged from His Larger Work, John Gardner Wilkinson
Auteur	John Gardner Wilkinson
Éditeur	Harper & brothers, 1854
Original provenant de	l'Université de Virginie
Numérisé	10 déc. 2008

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