or agricultural populations, they are everywhere, except inEgypt, at the mercy of the weather; seasons which are either toodry or too wet may reduce them to famine, for in those distanttimes local famines were far more fatal than in these days, whenfacility of transport and elaborate commercial… … Fig. 4.—Harvest scene ; from a tomb at Gizeli. (CbampoUion, pi. 417.) may have had the baton of the tax-collector to fear, but healways had a few onions or a few ears of maize to preserve himfrom starvation.^ beings who received the breath of Hfe. ... It is evident that from the foundationof the…
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![An illustration from Catalogue des monuments et inscriptions de l'Égypte antique / publié sous les auspices de S.A. Abbas II Helmi par la direction générale du Service des antiquités [de l'Égypte] ; par J. de Morgan, U. Bouriant, G. Legrain, G. Jéquier, A. Barsanti (1894)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-cataloguedesmonu21egyp-66-78.webp)
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