The treasury of ancient Egypt; miscellaneous chapters on ancient Egyptian history and archæology (1911)
Weigall, Arthur Edward Pearse Brome, 1880-1934 · Edinburgh London, W. Blackwood and sons · leaf 64
e same tambourines as arecarried by their class in Pharaonic paintings andreliefs. The same date-wine which intoxicatedthe worshippers of the Egyptian Bacchus goes theround of this village company, and the same foodstuif, the same small, flat loaves of bread, areeaten. Passingf out into the fields… … y. X Pl. IV. The Egyptian Empire. 37 plough is shaped as it always was. The shadoof,or water-hoist, is patiently worked as it has beenfor thousands of years ; while the cylindrical hoistemployed in Lower Egypt was invented and intro-duced in Ptolemaic times. Threshing and win-nowing proceed in the…
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