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Title: The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916
Subjects: History, Ancient Egypt -- History Syria -- History and antiquities Assyria -- History and antiquities
Publisher: London : S.P.C.K.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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hose gone before thee have had their hour of joy, and they DuMiCHEN, Historisclie Inschri/ten, vol. ii. jil. xi. a, U. 9-15, the text of which has been revisedand corrected by Benkdite, Le Tombeau de Neferhoipuu, in the Mdmoires tie la ilission Franfaise,vol. V. pi. ii. 11. 9-15, and pp. 505-5 J7; cf., for the translation, Maspero, Mudes Egyptiennes, vol. i.pp. 165-167. Osiris is here designated by the word chief, as I have already pointed out on p. 511,note 5. For the meaning of this word • sister, cf. its use in the love-songs of the llariu Papyrus,No. 500, vol. ii. pj). 504, 505 of the present work. Marriages between brothers and sisters in Egypt(see Daion of Civilization, pp. 50, 51) rendered it the most natural appellation. TflE COMMON FIT. 5 25 liavc put off sadness liiili shortens the inoinonls until tlic day wlicn licartsare destroyed !—Be mindliil. therefore, of tlio day when thou shalt be takent(i the eouiitrv wliere all men arc miu^Ied : none has ever taken llulhcr liis
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O.NK Ul TUK IIAKIEUS Of TUE TU-MU OF UAMSES III. goods with liini, and no one can over return Ironi it! The grave didnot, however, mingle all men as impartially as the poet would have us believe.The poor and insignificant liad merely a place in the common pit, which was-situated in the centre of the Assassif, one of the richest funerary quarters ofThebes. Yawning trenches stood ever open there, ready to receive their prey ;the rites were hurriedly performed, and the grave-diggers covered the mummiesof the days burial with a little sand, out of whi(di we receive them intact. IJniwu lpy Boiulicr, from a pliologrupli Inkon liy Iiisiri^cT in ISSl; ct., uinoii^otliui-worU.s inwliich tliis picture is given, La Descrijitiun dc lAiyi>t<\ Aiit., vol. ii. pi. 91; Cji.\mpoi,i.ion, Monuuientsdc VEijijpte et de la Nuhie, pi. cclxi., inul Rdbicixini, Monumeiiti Civili, pi. xcvii. iitiiKHi.s, Jlistiirischi- Inschriflmi, vol. ii. pi. xl.; Stkbn, Das Lied di s Ilar/ners, in tho Zeil-tchrift, IST

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