sors. The scenes chosen for the decoration of tomb walls had a magicintention ; whether drawn from civil life in the world or from thatof Hades, they were meant to preserve the dead from danger and to insure him a happy e.xistence beyond the tomb Their reproduction upon the walls of the sepulchre… … 1-IG. 9S.—Arrival in Egypt of a company of Asiatic emigrants (ChampoUion, pis. 362, 393). and he ate and drank with her ; crossing in safety the terriblegulfs of the lower world in the barque of the gods, and he crossedthem in safety. The tilling, reaping, and housing on hiswalls were for him real…
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