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A history of art in ancient Egypt (1883)

Perrot, Georges, 1832-1914, Chipiez, Charles, 1835-1901, Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 87

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lve months, so 1 The river should rise to this height upon the Nilometer at Cairo if there is to bea good Nile. In upper Egypt the banks of the river are much higher than inmiddle Egypt. In order to flow over those banks it must rise to a height of someeleven or twelve metres, and unless it rises… … Fig. 2.—Hoeing ; Beni-Hash^an. (Champollion, pi. 381 bis?) Thus the first tribes established themselves in the countryunder singularly favourable conditions ; thanks to the timely help

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