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 94
living,like Robert Southeys Scholar their hopes arewith the dead. Be the explanation what it may, the fact isindisputable that archaeology is patronised bythose who know not its real meaning. A manhas no more right to think of the people of oldas dust and dead bones than he has to think ofhis… … [/V/./t) /y A. Brugicii Jasiui. A reliet upon the side of the sarcophag-us ot one of the wives ot King-Mentuhotep III., discovered at Der el Bahri (Thebes). The royallady is taking- sweet-smelling- ointment from an alabaster vase. Ahandmaidenkeeps the flies away with a birds-wing fan.—CairoMrsEi M.…
Archaeology · Egypt -- Antiquities
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