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- Mando-Ra
In the Western half of the Delta, the Sun is worshipped as Mando-Ra. Like Amun-Ra, he wears the two tall feathers and the Sun on his head, but he differs from him in having a hawk's face. - Amun-Ra
First among these gods of the Egyptians was Ra, the Sun, or Amun-Ra, the Great Sun, whose warmth ripened their harvests, but whose scorching rays made his power felt as much as an enemy as a friend. - Winged Sun of Thebes
Over the portico of the Theban temple there is usually a ball or sun, ornamented with outstretched wings, representing the all-seeing Providence thus watching over and sheltering the world. From this sun hang two asps wearing the crowns of Upper and Lower Egypt. - Egyptian 'Shadoof'
The commonest of these machines is the shadoof. It is a sort of balance, with a weight at one end and a cord and bucket at the other. The arm of the balance rests upon a bar of wood, which is supported by two wooden posts, the whole resembling the horizontal bar of a gymnasium. The posts are about five feet high and two or three feet apart, and they are set up on the top of a bank, close to the edge, so that the end of the arm which bears the bucket may project over the water. This arm is made out of a slender branch of a tree, and is fastened to the horizontal bar by loops of cord. Its thicker end is loaded with a large, round ball of mud, while the other carries a long cord, or even a slender stick, at the end of which is the bucket, or bowl, in which the water is raised. - Egyptian 'Sakiyeh'
Another machine used for the same purpose [irrigation] is the sakiyeh, or draw-wheel. It consists of a horizontal axle, with a wheel at each end. One of these wheels overhangs the water of a river, a canal, or a well, and over it there passes a long, hanging loop of cords, to which a number of earthen pots are fastened. As the axle and the wheel go round, the pots on the cords are drawn over the wheel, and made to move in a circle like the buckets of a dredging-machine. The lower end of the loop of pots dips in the water, and each pot, as it passes through the water, is filled. It is then slowly drawn up by the turning wheel, and as it passes over the wheel, and is tilted over, it empties the water into a tank, or spout, and passes on downwards, empty, to the river again to take up a new supply. - Boot-Blacks of Cairo
Boot-Blacks of Cairo - An Egyptian Eunuch
An Egyptian Eunuch - A Syce
A stranger is impressed during his first days in Cairo with the spectacle of runners in front of carriages to warn people to get out of the way. These fellows have a picturesque dress and muscular legs, and their duty is to clear the way, by keeping a few yards in advance and warning people that a carriage is coming. An appendage of this sort is called a syce, and formerly it was necessary that he should be a native born Egyptian, but at present a Nubian may aspire to the position, and it is not unusual to see syces of the complexion of charcoal in front of elegant carriages. - Harps, pipe, and flute, from an ancient tomb near the Pyramids
- Bruce's Harpers
- twenty-one string harp
- Street Musicians
- Ancient Egyptian Cithara
- Asiatic Cithara
- Sarcophagus
- Inundation
- Hoeing
- Ploughing
- Ouah-ab-ra
- Mummy
- Assyrian inscription
- Genius in the attitude of adoration
- Assurbanipal at the chase.
- Statue of Nebo
- The King Sargon and his Grand Vizier
- The suite of Sargon 2
- The suite of Sargon
- Anou or Dagon
- Hunifer
- Priest
The illustration shows a priest wearing nothing but a loin cloth and a leopard skin. - Bread Seller in the streets of Cairo
Bread Seller in the streets of Cairo - Egyptian Water Carriers filling their jars
Everywhere through Egypt water is filtered in large jars, some of them holding nearly a barrel, and it is carried on the heads of women in lesser jars that contain from four to six gallons. - Egyptian Gamblers
Egyptian Gamblers - A Descendant of the Prophet
- A Guardian of the Temple
- A Karnak Beggar
A Karnak Beggar - A Luxor Dancing-girl
- A Bargain in the Ghezireh Gardens
- A Dancing-Girl
- A Daughter of the Nile
- A Dealer in Antiquities
- Thebes, January 2, 1898
- Tombs of the Kings, Thebes
- The Present Situation
- The Sheik of the Pyramids
- The Slipper Bazaar, Cairo, January 22, 1898
- The man who has ‘been there before
- Shepheard’s Hotel, Cairo
- Shopping
- Statue of Thothmes, Karnak
- Temple of Ti
- The Bridge
- On the Road to Cairo
- Our Bisharin Friends, Assuan
- Our Christmas Dinner, Esneh, December 23
- Posing
- Rameses the Great
- Salem Ghesiri Dragoman
- Most of the day was spent with Baedeker
- On Grenfell Hill. The Keeper of the Tomb