390. Part 1, Cutting and twisting thongs of leather 391. Currier holding a strap of leather with his toes Part 2, Men polishing a column, probably of wood 394. Potters' earthenware vases 395. Carpenter's tools, and the basket that held them 396. Veneering and the use of glue 398. Bandaging mummies and making the cases 400. Boats for carrying cattle and goods 401. A boat with the mast and sail taken down; having a chariot 402. Boat of the Nile; showing how the sail was fastened to the yards, and the nature of the rigging 403. Goldsmiths; fusing, weighing, and other processes 405. Blow-pipe and small fire-place 406. Golden baskets in the tomb of Remeses IJI.. 407. Ķabbáneh, or public weighers and notaries 409. Vases of the time of Thothmes III. 411. Pounding various substances in stone mortars with metal *L. Boats with coloured, and embroidered sails; from the tomb of M. Cattle during the inundation in the Delta 412. Modern ovens for hatching eggs 413. Herdsmen and poulterers treating sick animals and geese . ܪ . 416. Giving an account to two scribes of the stock on the estate 417. Herdsmen giving an account of the cattle 418. Cattle, goats, asses, and sheep with their numbers over them . 420. Fishing and fowling scenes 421. Clap-nets, from the sculptures 423. Fowlers catching geese ; and poulterers 428. Bringing in fish and preparing them for salting 429. Another mode of carrying large fish 430. The oxyrhinchus fish, in bronze 431. The oxyrhinchus at the Oasis 433. Foreign captives employed in making bricks, at Thebes **434. Features of two of the brickmakers 435. Persons coming to be registered 436. Persons brought before the scribes 437. The Goddess of Truth and Justice 438. The Goddess of Truth“ with her eyes closed 442. Bastinado for petty theft ** N. Pointed arch at Tusculum, in Italy (built while the Kings . . . 0. View of the modern town of Manfalóot Woodcut wall, showing the proportions during the 18th and 19th dynasties 267 Woodcut Page 446. Scribe with his inkstand on the table ; one pen is put behind . . . . . 276 277 283 284 285 286 287 303 306 313 314 314 316 318 321 323 325 326 330 331 332 334 335 336 338 340 343 344 345 . . 447. Artists painting on a board, and colouring a statue at Rome, but these differed from some of the Roman “specula”! borrowed their mirrors, with figures upon them) a . . 347 347 348 349 352 354 355 . Page 356 357 . 358 358 CHAPTER X. mitichus II, Woodcut 483. Services performed to the dead formed mummy 486. C<nveying the mummies on sledges to the closets in which they were kept 487. Pouring oil over a mummy 488. An altar in the British Museum 489. A table with cakes and ducks 490. Seals found near the tombs 491. Closets containing figures of gods 492. The mur nummy's head seen at an open panel of the coffin 493. A peculiar attendant at a funeral 494. Certain personages present at funerals; and grease poured before the sledge 495. A stone scarabæus with silver wings 496. Different forms of mummy-cases Vignette Q. Interior of a mummy-pit, and a woman seeking for ornaments 359 360 361 362 364 366 368 371 373 395 398 400 H. Khonfud, or clod-crushing machine used after the land is ploughed. Heliopolis-Cairo in the distance. CHAPTER VI. THE DIFFERENT CLASSES OF EGYPTIANS THE THIRD CLASS THE HUSBANDMEN AGRICULTURE PRODUCTIONS OF EGYPT HARVEST FESTIVALS OF THE PEASANTS - GARDENERS, HUNTSMEN, BOATMEN OF THE NILE, THE high estimation in which the priestly and military professions were held in Egypt placed them far above the rest of the community; but the other classes had also their degrees of consequence, and individuals enjoyed a position and importance in proportion to their respectability, their talents, or their wealth. According to Herodotus, the whole Egyptian community was divided into seven tribes, one of which was the sacerdotal, another of the soldiers, and the remaining five of the herdsmen, swineherds, shopkeepers, interpreters, and boatmen. Diodorus VOL. II. B |
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