Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916 · New York, Charles Scribner's Sons · leaf 39
compartments, insteadof the three of the principal face. In the centre Baiu, thistime mitred with the high white cap and escorted only byhis groom, strikes down with his club a chief crouching on theground before him, and surmounted by a strange group: thehieroglyph of a papyrus marsh from which… … 37. —HAS-RKI.IEF AT SINAI.(Phot. Petrie.) THINITE ART head; the meaning of the whole is that the god Horus deliverssix thousand Northern prisoners into the hands of the king. Twonaked figures, running at their utmost speed, represent the restof the defeated tribes and their flight. On the other…
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