Page 336. Wood-cut, No. 392. Large granite colossus, which men are sculpturing, polishing, and painting. 339. No. 393. 341. No. 394. 345. No. 395. 348. No. 396. 342. No. 397. 352. No. 398. 354. No. 399. 355. No. 400. Museum. 356. No. 401. 363. No. 402. 365. No. 403. 366. No. 404. 368. No. 405. 369. No. 406. The use of bellows. Siphons. Men's dresses. Dresses of priests. Dress of the king. Head-dresses of kings and individuals. An Egyptian wig, in the Berlin Museum. Dresses of women. Head-dress of a lady, from a mummy-case. Hands of a wooden figure, showing how rings were worn by women. 372. No. 407. 374. No. 408. Rings, signets, bracelets, and earrings, discovered in Egypt. 377. No. 409. Necklaces, principally in the Leyden Museum. Wooden combs found at Thebes. 381. No. 410. 383. No. 411. staining 384. No. 412. 385. No. 413. 386. No. 414. No. 415. monster. Boxes, or bottles, for holding kohl, used in the eyelids. Needles, pins, and earrings. Metal mirrors. Other metal mirrors. Another, with the head of a Typhonian No. 416. Walking-sticks. 387. No. 417. Priests and other persons of rank walking with sticks. 389. No. 417. a. A lady in the bath. 393. No. 418. Doctors and patients, fig. 1. and fig. 4. administering medicine to patients. 395. No. 419. Exvotus. Models of a hand and ears dedi cated to a deity. 398. Topographical plan of the pyramids of Geezeh. ERRATA (OF FIRST SERIES). VOL. III. Page viii. (Contents), line 12., for "Woollen" read "Linen." 17. note*, for " Bagajet" read "Bajazet ;" and for "Gibbon, xi. 64.” read "Gibbon, xi. 455." 27. note †, omit from " May he mean " to end of note, and substitute "He means the ichneumon, which is called by Am mianus hydrus ichneumonis genus.' xxii. 14. p. 336. Vide infrà, Vol. V. p. 138." 38. last line, add note on "surface:""* Like the bumarang of Australia; though there is no appearance of its being thrown by the Egyptians to come back again." 51. last line but one, omit "Tantalus, or." 114. line 6., for "woollen stuffs" read 117. note, for "xix. 8." read "xix. 1." linen stuffs." 253. note, for "brass being known" read "brass implements being known;" and at the end of this note add, "Brass coins are found, but not Egyptian." 289. note †, omit it all, and substitute "See Plate 76., second series of 385. note*, for "Exod. xxvii. 8." read "Exod. xxxviii. 8." though the hyæna is a carnivorous animal, it is not VIGNETTE G. The palace-temple of Remeses the Great, generally called the Memnonium, at Thebes, during the inundation. ALL classes of the Egyptians delighted in the sports of the field, and the peasants deemed it a duty as well as an amusement, to hunt and destroy the hyæna, and those animals which were enemies of the fields or flocks, and they shot them with the bow, caught them in traps, or by whatever means their dexterity and ingenuity could suggest. For though the hyæna is a carnivorous animal, it is not No. 318. Hyæna caught in a trap. Thebes. less hostile to the crops than to the flocks, when pressed with hunger*, and the ravages they are known to commit in the fields among the Indian corn and other produce, make the peasants of modern Egypt as anxious as their predecessors to destroy them, whenever they have an opportunity, or the courage to attack them. CHASE. Platot reckons the huntsmen as one of the castes of the Egyptians; and though, as I have already observed, persons who followed this occupation may have constituted a particular body, or a minor subdivision of one of the castes, we are not to suppose, that the sports of the field were confined to those who gained their livelihood by the chase; or that the wealthy classes of Egyptians were averse to an amusement so generally welcomed in all countries. Indeed, the sculptures of * I have already noticed this in Egypt and Thebes, p. 243, note. † Plato in Timæo, near the beginning. |