LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

COLOURED PLATES.
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[The Arab Chain, from near Keneh]102
[The Pyramids, from old Cairo]102
[Karnak, bas-reliefs in the Granite Chambers]124
[Seti I., bas-relief at Abydos]126
[General view of Karnak]360
[Perspective view of the Hypostyle Hall, Karnak]368
[Thebes, the plain, with the Colossi of Memnon]376
FIG. PAGE
1.[During the Inundation of the Nile]3
2.[Hoeing]4
3.[Ploughing]4
4.[Harvest scene]5
5.[The Bastinado]6
6.[Statue from the Ancient Empire]10
7.[The Sheikh-el-Beled]11
8.[Hunting in the Marshes]14
9.[Shadouf]15
10.[The White Crown]16
11.[The Red Crown]16
12.[The Pschent]16
13.[Seti I. in his War-Chariot]23
14.[Rameses II. in adoration before Seti]25
15.[Homage to Amenophis III.]26
16.[Construction of a Temple at Thebes]27
17.[Columns in the Hypostyle Hall, Karnak]28
18, 19.[Scribes registering the yield of the harvest]29
20.[Colossi of Amenophis III. 30]30
21.[Scribe registering merchandize]31
22.[Boatmen]32
23.[Cattle Drovers]33
24.[Bakers]33
25.[Women at a loom]34
26.[Netting birds]35
27.[Shepherds in the fields]36
28.[Winnowing corn]36
29.[Herdsmen]37
30.[From the tomb of Menofre]39
31.[Water Tournament]42
32.[Mariette's House]43
33.[Amenhotep, or Amenophis III., presented by Phré to Amen-Ra]45
34.[Amen (or Ammon)]51
35.[Ptah]52
36.[Osiris]53
37.[The goddess Bast]54
38.[Painted bas-relief]58
39.[Sekhet]59
40.[Isis-Hathor]60
41.[A Sphinx]61
42.[Touaris]63
43.[Rannu]64
44.[Horus]65
45.[Thoth]66
46.[Sacrifice to Apis]67
47.[Statue from the Ancient Empire]73
48.[Woman kneading dough]74
49.[The Scribe Chaphré]75
50.[The Lady Naï]76
51.[Ouah-ab-ra]79
52.[Sculptor at work upon an arm]81
53.[Sculptor carving a statue]83
54.[Artist painting a statue]85
55.[Isis nursing Horus]87
56.[Chephren]90
57.[Ti, with his wife and son]91
58.[Square building]97
59.[Rectangular and oblong building]97
60.[The Libyan chain, above the Necropolis of Thebes]98
61.[General appearance of an Egyptian Temple]99
62.[Temple of Khons, at Thebes]100
63.[Temple of Khons, Thebes]100
64.[Temple of Khons, Thebes]100
65.[From the second court of Medinet-Abou, Thebes]101
66.[Ramesseum, Thebes]101
67.[The Egyptian Gorge or Cornice]102
68.[Capital and Entablature of the Temple of the Deus Rediculus at Rome]104
69.[The Egyptian "bond"]107
70.[Double-faced wall]108
71, 72.[Elements of the portico]108
73.[Egyptian construction]109
74.[Element of an off-set arch]111
75.[Arrangement of the courses in an off-set arch]111
76.[Off-set semicircular arch]111
77.[Voussoir]112
78.[Arrangement of voussoirs]112
79.[Semicircular vault]112
80.[Granaries, from a bas-relief]113
81.[Modern pigeon house, Thebes]114
82.[Elements of wooden construction]116
83.[Wooden building (first system)]117
84.[Wooden building (second system)]118
85.[Seti I. striking prisoners of war with his mace]124
86.[Stele of the eleventh dynasty]131
87.[Mummy case from the eighteenth dynasty]137
88.[Man and his wife in the style of the fifth dynasty]138
89.[Sekhem-ka, his wife Ata, and his son Khnem, in the style of the fifth dynasty]139
90.[Stele of Nefer-oun]140
91.[Preparation of the victims and arrival of funeral gifts]141
92.[Table for offerings]144
93.[Another form of the table for offerings]144
94.[Labourers heaping up ears of corn]146
95, 96.[Sepulchral statuettes]147
97.[Vignette from a Ritual upon papyrus]149
98.[Arrival in Egypt of a company of Asiatic emigrants]152
99.[The tomb of Ti; women, representing the lands of the deceased, carrying the funeral gifts]154
100.[Lid of the coffin of Entef]158
101, 102.[Scarabs]159
103, 104.[Funerary amulets]159
105.[Pillow]160
106.[Actual condition of a Mastaba. The Tomb of Sabou]167
107.[Three mastabas at Gizeh]168
108.[Restoration of part of the Necropolis of Gizeh]169
109.[The Mastabat-el-Faraoun]170
110.[Entrance to a Mastaba at Sakkarah]171
111.[Lintel of the tomb of Teta]172
112.[Plan of the tomb of Ti]174
113, 114.[Mastaba at Sakkarah]174
115.[Western wall in the chamber of the tomb of Ptah-Hotep]175
116.[Plan of a Mastaba with four serdabs]178
117.[Longitudinal section of the same Mastaba]178
118.[Transverse section through the chamber]179
119.[Transverse section through the serdabs]179
120.[Figures in high relief, from a Mastaba at Gizeh]180
121.[The upper chamber, well, and mummy-chamber]181
122.[Double Mastaba at Gizeh]182
123.[Sarcophagus of Khoo-foo-Ankh]183
124.[Details of the Sarcophagus of Khoo-foo-Ankh]184
125.[Bas-relief from Sakkarah]185
126.[Head of a Mummy]188
127.[Plans of the temples belonging to the Second and Third Pyramids]193
128.[Plan of the Pyramid of Cheops]198
129.[The Great Pyramid and the small pyramids at its foot]199
130.[The Three Great Pyramids; from the south]201
131.[The Pyramid of Illahoun, horizontal section in perspective]205
132.[Section of the Pyramid of Cheops]206
133.[The southern Pyramid of Dashour]207
134.[Section of the Stepped Pyramid]207
135.[The Stepped Pyramid]208
136-142.[Successive states of a pyramid]209
143.[Section of the Stepped Pyramid at Sakkarah]213
144.[Construction of the Pyramid of Abousir in parallel layers]213
145.[Partial section of the Stepped Pyramid]214
146.[The Pyramid of Meidoum]215
147.[The Mastabat-el-Faraoun]216
148.[Funerary monument represented in the inscriptions]216
149.[Plan and elevation of a pyramid at Meroe]219
150.[Method of closing a gallery by a stone portcullis]220
151.[Portcullis closed]220
152.[Transverse section, in perspective, through the Sarcophagus-chamber and the discharging chambers of the Great Pyramid]221
153.[Longitudinal section through the lower chambers]222
154.[Pyramidion]230
155.[The casing of the pyramids]233
156.[Plan of the Pyramids of Gizeh and of that part of the Necropolis which immediately surrounds them]237
157.[The Sphinx]238
158.[Pyramid with its inclosure, Abousir]239
159.[The river transport of the Mummy]243
160.[Tomb at Abydos]244
161.[Section of the above tomb]244
162.[Tomb at Abydos]245
163.[Section of the above tomb]245
164.[Stele of the eleventh dynasty, Abydos]246
165.[Stele of Pinahsi, priest of Ma; Abydos]247
166.[Façade of a tomb at Beni-Hassan]250
167.[Façade of a tomb at Beni-Hassan, showing some of the adjoining tombs]251
168.[Interior of a tomb at Beni-Hassan]252
169.[Plan of the above tomb]252
170.[Chess players, Beni-Hassan]253
171.[General plan of Thebes]257
172.[Rameses III. conducting a religious procession, at Medinet-Abou]261
173.[Rameses III. hunting]265
174.[Rameses II. in battle]271
175.[Painting in a royal tomb at Gournah]273
176.[Amenophis III. presenting an offering to Amen]274
177.[Flaying the funerary victim]275
178.[Entrance to a royal tomb]277
179.[Plan of the tomb of Rameses II.]282
180.[Horizontal section of the same tomb]282
181.[The smaller Sarcophagus-chamber in the tomb of Rameses VI.]283
182.[Entrance to the tomb of Rameses III. 284]
183.[Hunting scene upon a tomb at Gournah]286
184.[The weighing of actions]287
185.[Anubis, in a funerary pavilion]288
186.[Plan and section of a royal tomb]292
187, 188.[Theban tombs from the bas-reliefs]294
189.[Theban tomb from a bas-relief]295
190.[A tomb of Apis]296
191.[The tomb of Petamounoph]297
192.[The most simple form of Theban tomb]299
193.[Tomb as represented upon a bas-relief]299
194.[Stele in the Boulak Museum, showing tombs with gardens about them]302
195.[The sarcophagus of a royal scribe]303
196.[Canopic vase of alabaster]305
197.[View of the grand gallery in the Apis Mausoleum]306
198.[Sepulchral chamber of an Apis bull]308
199.[Section in perspective of "Campbell's tomb"]312
200.[Vertical section in perspective of the Sarcophagus-chamber of the above tomb]312
201.[A Tomb on El-Assasif]313
202.[The Temple of the Sphinx]324
203.[Interior of the Temple of the Sphinx]325
204.[The Temple of the Sphinx, the Sphinx, and the neighbouring parts of the Necropolis]331
205.[Ram, or Kriosphinx]336
206.[Gateway and boundary wall of a temple]339
207.[Principal façade of the Temple of Luxor]345
208.[The Temple of Khons; horizontal and vertical section showing the general arrangement of the temple]349
209.[The Bari, or sacred boat]352
210.[Portable tabernacle of painted wood]354
211.[Granite tabernacle]355
212.[General plan of the Great Temple at Karnak]358
213.[Longitudinal section of the Temple of Luxor]361
214.[Plan of the anterior portion of the Great Temple at Karnak]363
215.[The Great Temple at Karnak; inner portion]367
216.[Karnak as it is at present]369
217.[Plan of the Temple of Luxor]371
218.[Bird's-eye view of Luxor]373
219.[Plan of the Ramesseum]377
220.[The Ramesseum. Bird's-eye view of the general arrangement]379
221.[General plan of the buildings at Medinet-Abou]381
222.[Plan of the Temple of Thothmes]382
223.[Plan of the Great Temple at Medinet-Abou]383
224.[Plan of the Temple at Abydos]387
225.[Seti, with the attributes of Osiris, between Amen, to whom he is paying homage, and Chnoum]390
226.[Plan of the Temple of Gournah]392
227.[Façade of the naos of the Temple of Gournah]393
228.[Longitudinal section of the Temple of Gournah, from the portico of the naos to the back wall]393
229.[Plan of the Temple of Elephantiné]396
230.[View in perspective of the Temple of Elephantiné]397
231.[Longitudinal section of the Temple of Elephantiné]398
232.[Temple of Amenophis III. at Eilithyia]401
233.[Temple of Amenophis III. at Eilithyia; longitudinal section]403
234.[The speos at Addeh]406
235.[The speos at Addeh; longitudinal section]406
236.[Plan of speos at Beit-el-Wali]407
237.[Longitudinal section of the speos at Beit-el-Wali]407
238.[Plan of the hemispeos of Gherf-Hossein]408
239.[Gherf-Hossein; longitudinal section]409
240.[Plan of the hemispeos of Derri]409
241.[Longitudinal section; Derri]409
242.[Façade of the smaller temple at Ipsamboul]411
243.[Plan of the smaller temple]413
244.[Perspective of the principal Chamber in the smaller temple]413
245.[Longitudinal section of the smaller temple]413
246.[Plan of the Great Temple]413
247.[Perspective of the principal Hall in the Great Temple]414
248.[Façade of the Great Temple at Ipsamboul]415
249.[Longitudinal section of the Great Temple]417
250.[Dayr-el-Bahari]419
251.[Restoration in perspective of Dayr-el-Bahari]423
252.[The ruins on the Island of Philæ]431
253.[The battle against the Khetas, Luxor]436
254.[Rameses II. returning in triumph from Syria]437
255.[The goddess Anouké suckling Rameses II., Beit-el-Wali]441

[INTRODUCTION.]