Inside Out Library · Explore

The alabaster sarcophagus of Oimeneptah I., King of Egypt : now in Sir John Soane's Museum, Lincoln's Inn Fields (1864)

Sharpe, Samuel, 1799-1881, Bonomi, Joseph, Soane Gallery · London : Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green · leaf 14

An illustration from The alabaster sarcophagus of Oimeneptah I., King of Egypt : now in Sir John Soane's Museum, Lincoln's Inn Fields, 1864, leaf 14
irst from the Egyptian use of a guttural, adoubtful breathing, between Ch and Th, which led the interpreterto pronounce our O as Cho, and which also led him to translateit as Tho, the world. And again it needs, as the further explanation,that we take into account their slovenly habit of not… … Fig. 3. The Fenek. Fenek of Fig. 3; and by the side of it is the hieroglyphic copied fromit by the Egyptian sculptor. The name No. 86 is larger than the rest, and is Amunmai Aimenep-thah. The name No. 85 is a contraction of this; and without thehelp of the former, the latter could hardly be…

Seti I, King of Egypt · Tombs · Sarcophagi · Alabaster sculpture · Inscriptions, Egyptian

Internet Archive · Wellesley College Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.

More pictures from The alabaster sarcophagus of Oimeneptah I., King of Egypt : now in Sir John Soane's Museum, Lincoln's Inn Fields

More like this