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 Fibe. Hundred Wostruts

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
Productions of Egypt - Harvest Festivals of
the peasants-Gardeners, huntsmen, boatmen of the Nile

Agriculture

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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

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Boxes Boats Metals - Tin - Gold mines - Iron Bronze

- 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-

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Lawgivers - Provinces and governors Revenues - Gold-Mensu-

ration - Three seasons-

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- Intercalatior.

Weights and measures

Sothic year Land mea-

CHAPTER IX.

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Egyptian art

Drawing and

painting - Architecture Orders of architecture - Some devices

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

stones-Antiquity of the arch

— Early Egyptian inventions Dresses - Wigs - Dresses of women

- Ornaments - Ointments - Mirrors - Doctors - Magic

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