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 Vignette *L. Boats with coloured, and embroidered sails; from the tomb of 412. Modern ovens for hatching eggs 413. Herdsmen and poulterers treating sick animals and geese 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. 450a The remaining three of the orders of columns Woodcut 446. Scribe with his inkstand on the table; one pen is put behind his ear 447. Artists painting on a board, and colouring a statue 448. Section of one of the southern grottoes of Beni Hassan 449. Columns of the northern grottoes of Beni Hassan 450. Five of the Egyptian orders of columns 451. Heads of enemies, once supporting something now removed 454. Levelling and squaring a stone 455. Polishing granite statue 456. Standing figure of a king painted to represent granite 457. Bellows 460. Dress of the king 461. Head-dresses 462, 463. Wigs 464. Women carrying children 465. Sandals Page . 466. Sandals and shoes 332 469. Hands of a wooden figure of a woman, with many rings 470. Rings, signets, bracelets, and earrings 473. Boxes, or bottles, for holding the kohl for staining the eyelids 344 474. Needles, pins, and earrings 475. Metal mirrors. (Metal, and even glass, mirrors were also used at Rome, but these differed from some of the Roman “specula” used as ornaments for rooms; from which the Venetians borrowed their mirrors, with figures upon them) 478. Priests and other persons of rank walking with sticks 479. A lady in the bath with her attendants CHAPTER X. Vignette P. Tomb of Sakkára, arched with stone, of the time of Psam 483. Services performed to the dead 484. Members of the family present when the services were per 485. A woman embracing, and weeping before, her husband's mummy 486. Conveying 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 Page 357 358 358 359 before the sledge 492. The mummy'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 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 400 H. Khonfud, or clod-crushing machine used after the land is ploughed. Heliopolis-Cairo in the distance. 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 |