This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ... seeing Setui made into Hesepti, Merpaba into Merbap, and the figure on xvii. 26 turned into a statue of Ptah, we can well believe in a possible confusion of the early form of sen and kebh. 30. This ivory carving is the most important artistic piece that was found. It is carved on the back with the knots and bracts of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ... seeing Setui made into Hesepti, Merpaba into Merbap, and the figure on xvii. 26 turned into a statue of Ptah, we can well believe in a possible confusion of the early form of sen and kebh. 30. This ivory carving is the most important artistic piece that was found. It is carved on the back with the knots and bracts of a reed, and imitates one of the strips of reed used for casting lots or gaming. In the present time Egyptians throw half a dozen slips of reed on the ground, and count hoAV many fall with outside upward, to give a number as with dice. The inner side of this slip, which was probably one of a set, is carved with a bound captive. The work is excellent, as may be seen in the photographs xii. 12, 13. The plaited lock hanging down, the form of the beard, and the face, all agree to this being a western man or Libyan. But the long waist-cloth seems hardly to be expected at a time when, as the slates and ivory carvings of Hierakonpolis Siioav, clothing was not much developed. This is good evidence for the usual waist-cloth of the Old Kingdom being Libyan in origin. 23. The Sbalings, pls. xii., xviii. to xxix. The general appearance of the caps of clay which were used to fasten the jars is shown in the photographs xii. 3, 4, 5, 6; and the jars, as found intact, in photograph xxxviii. 7. The mouth of a jar was first covered with a stopper of pottery; the jar was put in a network of rope (shown in the figures of jars on seal xxi. 29); and then a dome cap (as xii. 3) or a high cone (as xii. 4, 6) of yellowish clay mixed with palm fibre was plastered over the top, and this was sealed by rolling a cylinder seal across it twice at right angles. Sometimes the two impressions are of the same seal (as seen in xii. 3), sometimes they are of different seals. There...
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