Title | Picturesque Palestine, Sinai, and Egypt, Vol. 2 |
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Publisher | D. Appleton and Company |
Date | 1883 |
Description | Index: Phoenicia and Lebanon / by the Rev. H. W. Jessup -- The Phoenician plain / by the Rev. Canon Tristram -- Acre, the key of Palestine, Mount Carmel and the river Kishon, Maritime cities and plains of Palestine / by Miss M. E. Rogers -- Lydda and Ramleh, Philistia / By Lt. Col. Warren -- The south country of Judaea / by the Rev. Canon Tristram -- The southern borderland and Dead Sea / by Professor Palmer -- Mount Hor and the cliffs of Edom, The convent of St. Catherine / by Miss M. E. Rogers -- Sinai / by the Rev. C. P. Clarke -- The land of Goshen, Cairo, Memphis, Thebes, Edfu and Philae / by S. Lane-Poole. |
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Language | English |
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Original Item Location | DS107 .W73 v.2 |
Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b1703789~S11 |
Digital Collection | Exotic Impressions: Views of Foreign Lands |
Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/exotic |
Repository | Kenneth Franzheim II Rare Books Room, William R. Jenkins Architecture and Art Library, University of Houston Libraries |
Repository URL | http://info.lib.uh.edu/about/campus-libraries-collections/william-r-jenkins-architecture-art-library |
Use and Reproduction | No Copyright - United States |
Identifier | exotic_201304_015 |
Title | Page v |
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Transcript | CONTENTS. MEMPHIS. By STANLEY LANE-POOLE 405 The Builders of the Pyramids.—Bulak.—Menes.—The City of Memphis.—Abd-el-Latit's Description of its Ruins. —The Pyramids of Gizeh.—The Red Pyramid.—-The Tomb of Queen Nitocris.—" The Lady of the Pyramid." —The Sphinx.—Construction and Object of the Pyramids.—Pyramid of Steps.—Pyramid of Meydum.— Rahotep and Nefert.—Pictorial Records preserved in Tombs at Memphis and Sakkarah.—The Serapeum.— The gigantic Cemetery of Sacred Bulls.—M. Mariette's Discoveries.—Manfalut.—Cemetery of the Sacred Crocodile.—Tombs of Beny Hasan.—Pigeon Towers.—Villages and Towns on the Nile.—Minyeh, its busy Bazaars and Market-place. —Asyut or Siout.—Pottery.—Ancient Tombs.—Girgeh.—Ruins of Abydos.— Burial-place of Osiris.—Plan of Egyptian Temples.—Wall-chiselling at Abydos.—Kom-es-Sultan.—The Story of the Risen Osiris.—Denderah. — Portraits of Cleopatra. THEBES. By STANLEY LANE-POOLE 427 The Plain of Thebes.—The "Valley of the Kings."—Temple of Deyr El-Bahry.—Queen Hatasu's Obelisk at Karnak, the tallest in Egypt.—" City of Amon."—Thebes.—Wall-pictures, Medinet Habu.—Rock-cut Tombs in the " Valley of the Kings."—Memorial Chapels in the Plain.—Temple of Kurnah.—Tomb of Seti I.—The Rameseum.—The shattered Colossus of Rameses.—The Twin Colossi of the Amenopheum.—The Vocal Memnon.—Temple of Rameses III., or Medinet Habu.—The Theban Triad.—Characteristics of an Egyptian Temple.—Temple of Luxor.—Causeway from the Great Pylon of Luxor to Karnak.—Temple of Khons.— Temple of Mout.—Great Temple of Amen-Ra.—"Hall of Columns,"—Obelisk of Queen Hatasu.—Wall- pictures at Karnak. EDFU AND PHIL^:. By STANLEY LANE-POOLE 454 The Nile above Thebes.—Er men t.—Esne.—Temple of Horus at Edfu.—Sculptured Walls and Inscriptions.—The Gorge of Gebel-es-Silsileh.—Kom-Ombo.—Island of Elephantine.—Aswan.—Its Bazaar.—The First Cataract. —Philae.— Temple of Isis. — The " Holy Island "—Burial-place of Osiris. |