P. 13, c. 1—“Karnak,” kar´nak. A modern village of Egypt, in which has been found a portion of the ruins of Thebes.
P. 13, c. 1—“Mem´non.” A statue of a hero of the Trojan war. It is called musical because at sunrise a sound comes from it like the twang of a harp string. It has been conjectured that this tone was caused by the expansive effect of the sun’s rays upon the stone.
P. 13, c. 1 “Ram´ses;” “Tu´rin.”
P. 13, c. 1—“Osiris,” o-si´ris. One of the chief divinities of the Egyptians.
P. 13, c. 1—“Louvre,” loovr; “Abou Simbel,” â-boo-sim´bel; “Coptic,” cŏp´tic.
P. 13, c. 2—“Edfou,” ed´foo´; “Denderah,” den´der-äh.
P. 13, c. 2-“Hadrian,” ha´drĭ-an, or Adrian. (76-138.) Roman Emperor.
P. 13, c. 2—“Botta,” bot´ä; “Mo´sul.”
P. 14, c. 1—“Sarcophaguses,” sar-cŏph´a-gŭses. Literally the word means eating flesh, and was named from the peculiar kind of limestone used by the Greeks for making coffins which consumed the body in a short time. Now a coffin or tomb made from stone of any kind.
P. 14, c. 1—“Cambyses,” kam-bī´sēz. The second king of Persia, and probably the Ahasuerus mentioned in Ezra.