A

POPULAR ACCOUNT

OF

THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS.

REVISED AND ABRIDGED FROM HIS LARGER WORK,

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

IN TWO VOLUMES.-VOL. II.

Illustrated with Five: Hündrid Woodeût

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

1854.

LONDON: PRINTED BY W. CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET,

AND CHARING CROSS.

CONTENTS OF VOL. II.

CHAPTER VI.

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

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Festivals of

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- 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

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Lamps - Fine

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

- Boxes - Boats - Metals-Tin - Gold mines - Iron Bronze

- Casting― Stone knives - Pounding in mortars

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

sures

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Orders of architecture

copied from nature — Too great symmetry avoided — Use of large

stones-Antiquity of the arch - Bricks - Progress of architecture

Use of limestone - Colossi - Monoliths Machinery Masons

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

- Ornaments - Ointments - Mirrors- Doctors-Magic

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