The Dawn of Civilization Volume 1; Egypt and Chaldaea

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...although in some cases the walls are left bare. Their public buildings have all, or nearly 1 Prime Papyrut, pi. xv. 1. 8; pi. xvi. 1. 1; cf. Vibey, Etudes sur le Papyrus Prisse, pp. 01-95. 'Idem, pi. vi. 1. 3, p. 10; pi. vii. 11. 5-7; cf. Virey, op. cit., pp. 39-41, 45-47. - Idem, pi. v. 1. 10; pi. vi. 1. 3; pi. viii. 11. 7-9, etc.; cf. Vibey, op. cit., pp. 35-38, 47-40. Idem, pi. vi. 1. 11; pi. vii. 1. 3; pi. xiv. 1. 6; cf. Vibey, op. cit., pp. 41-44, 85-87. See also pi. i. 1. 3, et seq., and Vibey, op. cit., p. 16, et seq. s Idem, pi. x. 11. 8-10; cf. Virey, op. cit., pp. 67, 68. 9 I discovered in the masonry of one of the pyramids of Lisht, the remains of a temple built by Khepbren (maspebo, Etudes de Mylhologie et d Archiulogie Egyptiennes, vol. i. pp. 148, 140); and Naville drew attention to the fragments of another temple, decorated by the same king and his predecessor Kheops, at Bubastis (naville, Bubastis, pi. xxxii. a-b, pp. 3, 5, 6, 10). all, perished; breaches have been made in them by invading armies or by civil wars, and they have been altered, enlarged, and restored scores of times in the course of ages; but the tombs of the old kings remain, and afford proof of the skill and perseverance exhibited by the architects in devising and carrying out their plans.1 Many of the mastabas occurring at intervals between Gizeh and Medum have, indeed, been hastily and carelessly built, as if by those who were anxious to get them finished, or who had an eye to economy; we may observe in all of them neglect and imperfection, --all the trade-tricks which an unscrupulous jerry-builder then, as now, could be guilty of, in order to keep down the net cost and satisfy the natural parsimony of his patrons without lessening his own profits.2 Where, however, the ...