Egypt: A Practical GuideTehuti Research Foundation, 1998 - Всего страниц: 254 A pocket-size, no-nonsense, no-clutter guide to Egypt, written by an Egyptian-American Egyptologist. Quick, easy, and comprehensive reference to sites of antiquities and recreation. From the lively Nile Valley, to the solitary deserts, to the diverse Sinai, to the lush oases, to the exotic underwater life of the Red Sea, to the Mediterranean beaches. Find your way with numerous maps and illustrations. Tips to understanding both the modern and ancient Egyptian cultures. Informative, detailed, and illustrated glossary. |
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6 Historical Information | 58 |
12 Valley of the Upper Nile | 182 |
13 Aswan Sunt Abu Simbel | 191 |
14 Alexandria | 205 |
15 The Mediterranean Coast | 209 |
16 The Egyptian Sahara Oases | 210 |
17 The Red Sea | 218 |
18 Sinai | 222 |
GLOSSARY | 228 |
7 Understanding Ancient Egyptians | 64 |
8 Cairo Vicinities | 82 |
9 Middle Egypt | 127 |
10 LuxorThebes TaApet | 137 |
11 Sites North of Luxor TaApet | 175 |
Selected Bibliography | 240 |
INDEX | 242 |
Maps | 250 |
About TRF Books | 252 |
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Abu Simbel Akhenaton Alexandria Ancient Egyptian Arabic Aswan Ausar Osiris Auset Bank body Book building built Cairo called canopic jars centre century Christian columns Commemorative complete contains Court decorated Deir el Medina divine Dynasty early east Egypt emple followed four Giza granite Greek Hall Heru Interest Points Interior Island King Kingdom known later Light Location map Luxor major meaning Middle Museum neteru Nile Oasis offices original passage Period Persian Pharaoh Points of Interest pylon Pyramid Ramses represented Roman Rule sacred Sakkara sanctuary scenes Seti Show side Sinai Sphinx statues stone Story Suez symbol temple texts throughout tombs Tourist trip Tuthomosis universe usually Valley walls
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Стр. 124 - Although other cities in Egypt were carried to a great height, in my opinion, the greatest mounds were thrown up about the city of Bubastis, in which is a temple of Bubastis well worthy of mention ; for though other temples may be larger and more costly, yet none is more pleasing to look at than this.
Стр. 11 - Do you not know, Asclepius, that Egypt is an image of heaven, or, to speak more exactly, in Egypt all the operations of the powers which rule and work in heaven have been transferred to earth below? Nay, it should rather be said that the whole Kosmos dwells in this our land as in its sanctuary.
Стр. 11 - is the temple of the world ; but, as wise men should foresee all things, you should know that a time is coming when it will seem that the Egyptians have by an unfailing piety served God in vain, and their holy religion will become void ; for the divinity will return from earth to heaven, Egypt will be forsaken, and the land which was the seat of the divinity will be void of religion. For when strangers shall possess this kingdom religion will be neglected, and laws be made against piety and divine...
Стр. 112 - Day (known, mistakenly, as The Book of the Dead). The Book of What Is In the Duat (or Underworld).
Стр. 177 - Trace for me A running lake, a flock of sheep And one who sings her child to sleep." (Marie -EGYPTIAN From the TSool^ of the T)ead 3500 BC, et seq. Both external detail and central faith of the Egyptian religion are incorporated in the Chapters of Coming Forth by Day, commonly known as the Book of the Dead. About 3500 BC, when the first Chapter was set down by the scribes, many of the symbols were already so ancient that the men who wrote them were ignorant of their significance. Yet all were retained,...
Стр. 179 - I have not caused terror." (24) "Hail, thou Destroyer, who comest forth from Kesiu, I have not transgressed." (25) "Hail, thou who orderest speech, who comest forth from Urit, I have not burned with rage." (26) "Hail, thou Babe, who comest forth from Uab, I have not stopped my ears against the words of Right and Truth.
Стр. 179 - ... Hail, Lord of Right and Truth, who comest forth from the city of Right and Truth, I have not been an eavesdropper." (18) " Hail, thou who dost stride backwards, who comest forth from the city of Bast, I have not set my lips in motion [against any man]." (19) " Hail, Sertiu, who comest forth from Annu, I have not been angry and wrathful except for a just cause." (20) " Hail, thou being of two-fold wickedness, who comest forth from Ati (?), I have not defiled the wife of any man.
Стр. 78 - ... explanation for this wall. Perhaps it is part of the same campaign to undo the queen's works in a selective, not a wholesale, manner, for reasons that at present are a total mystery. The selectivity, however, is a fact, and illustrated here at Karnak as well as elsewhere. In certain instances, the queen's name has been left intact in full view of one and all. In other instances, it has been scrupulously erased from hidden shrines where none but the officiating priest could ever be aware of it.
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Стр. 178 - B: 1. I have not done iniquity. 2. I have not robbed with violence. 3. I have not done violence [to any man]. 4. I have not committed theft. 5. I have not slain man or woman. 6. I have not made light the bushel. 7. I have not acted deceitfully. 8. I have not purloined the things which belong to God. 9. I have not uttered falsehood. 10. I have not carried away food.