The spelling of the ancient Egyptian words has, at Professor Maspero's request, been retained throughout, with the exception that the French ou has been invariably represented by û, e.g. Khnoumou by Khnûmû.
By an act of international courtesy, the director of the Imprimerie Nationale has allowed the beautifully cut hieroglyphic and cuneiform type used in the original to be employed in the English edition, and I take advantage of this opportunity to express to him our thanks and appreciation of his graceful act.
M. L. McClure.
List of Illustrations
[ 006.jpg The Mouth of The Nile Previous to The Formation Of the Delta. ]
[ 009.jpg A Line of Laden Camels Emerges from A Hollow ]
[ 011.jpg Part of Gebel Shêkh HerÎdi ]
[ 012.jpg The Hill of Kasr Es-sayyad ]
[ 014.jpg Entrance to the First Cataract ]
[ 016.jpg League Beyond League, the Hills Stretch on ]
[ 018.jpg The Entrance to The First Cataract ]
[ 020.jpg Entrance to the Second Catakact ]
[ 022.jpg An Attempt to Represent the Egyptian Universe ]
[ 023.jpg Footnotes With Graphics ]
[ 027.jpg South Africa and the Sources of The Nile ]
[ 031.jpg During the Inundation ]
[ 036.jpg Entrance of the MudÎriyeh Of AsyÛt ]
[ 037.jpg Forest of Date Palms ]
[ 040.jpg Acacias at the Entrance to a Garden Outside EkhmÎm ]
[ 041.jpg She-ass and Her Foal ]
[ 042.jpg The UrÆus of Egypt ]
[ 045.jpg The Mormyrus Oxyrhynchus ]
[ 047.jpg Two Fishermen Carrying a Latus ]
[ 049.jpg The Shrine of The Nile at Biggeh ]
[ 051.jpg Nile Gods from the Temple of Seti I. At Abydos ]
[ 059.jpg The Noble Type of Egyptian ]
[ 060.jpg Head of a Tileban Mummy ]
[ 060b.jpg Wrappings from a Mummy (Oil painting) ]
[ 062.jpg A Fellah Woman With the Features of an Ancient King ]
[ 066.jpg Negro Prisoners Wearing the Panther's Skin As A Loin-cloth. ]
[ 068.jpg Notable Wearing the Large Cloak; Priest Wearing Panther's Skin ]
[ 070.jpg A Dignitary Wrapped in his Large Cloak ]
[ 072.jpg Costume of Egyptian Woman, Spinning ]
[ 073.jpg Man Wearing Wig and Necklaces ]
[ 074.jpg The Boomerang and Fighting Bow ]
[ 076.jpg King Holding the Baton ]
[ 077.jpg Fishing in the Marshes ]
[ 078.jpg Hunting in the Marshes: Encountering a Hippopotamus ]
[ 079.jpg Hunting in the Desert: Bull, Lion, and Oryx ]
[ 080.jpg Catching Animals With the Bola ]
[ 082.jpg A Swineherd and his Pigs ]
[ 084.jpg The Egyptian Lotus ]
[ 089.jpg An Egyptian Saki (well) Procuring Water for Irrigation ]
[ 091.jpg Boatmen Fighting on a Canal Communicating With The Nile ]
[ 092.jpg A Great Egyptian Lord, Ti, and his Wife ]
[ 094.jpg Nomes of Middle Egypt ]
[ 096.jpg Nomes of Upper Egypt ]
[ 099.jpg Nomes of Lower Egypt ]
[ 108.jpg the Goddess NapkÎt, StapÎt ]
[ 110.jpg Some Fabulous Beasts of the Egyptian Desert ]
[ 113.jpb Some Fabulous Beasts of the Egyptian Desert ]
[ 115.jpg NÛÎt the Starry One ]
[ 116.jpg Goose-god Facing The Cat-goddess, The Lady Of Heaven ]
[ 117.jpg the Cow HÂthor, The Lady Of Heaven ]
[ 118.jpg Twelve Stages in The Life of The Sun and Its Twelve Forms ]
[ 123.jpg Conception of the Principal Constellations of the Northern Sky ]
[ 124.jpg Lunar Bark, Self-propelled, Under The Protection of the Two Eyes ]
[ 125.jpg The Haunch, and The Female Hippopotamus ]
[ 127.jpg Okion, Sothis, and Two Hokus-planets ]
[ 129.jpg Orion and the Cow Sothis Separated by The Sparrow-hawk ]
[ 131.jpg Amon-rÂ, As MÎnÛ of Coptos, Invested With His Emblems ]
[ 134.jpg The Hawk-headed Hokus ]
[ 136.jpg The Hoeus of HibonÛ, on The Back Of The Gazelle ]
[ 138.jpg The Cat-headed Bast ]
[ 147.jp The Black Shadow Coming out Into The Sunlight. ]
[ 148.jpg August Souls of Osiris and Horus in Adoration ]
[ 150.jpg The King After his Coronation ]
[ 161.jpg Sacrificing to the Dead in The Tomb Chapel ]
[ 169.jpg Open-air Offerings to the Serpent ]
[ 171.jpg The Peasant's Offering to The Sycamore ]
[ 173.jpg Sacrifice of The Bull.—Priest Lassoing the Victim ]
[ 180.jpg Shu Uplifting the Sky ]
[ 182.jpg ShÛ Forcibly Separating SibÛ and NÛÎt ]
[ 183.jpg The DidÛ of Osiris ]
[ 185.jpg Osiris-onnophris, Whip and Crook in Hand ]
[ 187.jpg Isis, Wearing the Cow-horn Head-dress ]
[ 189.jpg Nephthys, As a Wailing Woman, and the God SÎt, Fighting ]
[ 192.jpg Horus, the Avenger of his Father, and Anubis ÛapÔaÎtÛ ]
[ 191.jpg The Sun Springing from an Opening Lotus-flower ]
[ 194.jpg The Plain and Mounds of Heliopolis Fifty Years Ago ]
[ 196.jpg HakmakhÛÎti-hakmakhis, the Great God ]
[ 198.jpg Khopri, in his Bark ]
[ 201.jpg The Twin Lions, ShÛ and TafnÛÎt ]
[ 204.jpg The Four Funerary Genii, KhabsonÛf, TiÛmaÛtf, Hapi, and AmsÎt ]
[ 208.jpg The Ibis Thot, and The Cynocephalous Thot ]
[ 212.jpg The Hermopolitan Ogdoad ]
[ 224.jpg KhnÛmÛ Modelling Man Upon a Potter's Table. ]
[ 230.jpg At the First Hour of The Day The Sun Embarks ]
[ 236.jpg SokhÎt, the Lioness-headed. ]
[ 242.jpg Cow, Sustained Above the Earth by ShÛ and The Support ]
[ 244.jpg Three of the Divine Amulets Preserved ]
[ 250.jpg the Osmian Triad Hokus. Osiris, Isis. ]
[ 253.jpg Isis-hathor, Cow-headed. ]
[ 256.jpg The Osirian Mummy Prepared ]
[ 257.jpg The Reception Op The Mummy by Anubis ]
[ 259.jpg Osikis in Hades, Accompanied by Isis, AmentÎt, And Nephthys ]
[ 260.jpg The Deceased Climbing The Slope of The Mountain Of the West ]
[ 261.jpg The Mummy of SÛtimosÛ Clasping his Soul Into His Arms. ]
[ 262.jpg Cynocephali Drawing the Net in Which Souls Are Caught. 1 ]
[ 264.jpg Deceased and his Wife Seated in Front of The Sycamore of NÛÎt ]
[ 266.jpg Deceased Piercing a Serpent With his Lance. 2 ]
[ 267.jpg Good Cow HÂthor Carrying The Dead Man and His Soul. ]
[ 268.jpg Anubis and Thot Weighing the Heart of The Deceased ]
[ 269.jpg The Deceased is Brought Before The Shrine Of Osiris the Judge ]
[ 272B.jpg The Occupations of Ani in the Elysian Fields ]
[ 275.jpg The Manes Tilling The Ground and Reaping in Fields ]
[ 277.jpg The Dead Man and his Wife Playing at Draughts In The Pavilion. ]
[ 278.jpg The Dead Man Sailing in his Bark Along The Canals ]
[ 279.jpg Boat of a Funerary Fleet on Its Way to Abydos. ]
[ 280.jpg The Solar Bark Into Which The Dead Man is About To Enter. ]
[ 282.jpg The Solar Bark Passing Into The Mountain of The West. ]
[ 284.jpg The Soul Descending The Sepulchral Shaft ]
[ 285.jpg The Soul on The Edge of The Funeral Couch ]
[ 287.jpg The Soul Going Forth Into Its Garden by Day ]
[ 289.jpg An Incident in the Wars of Haratheus and Sit ]
[ 293.jpg One of the Astronomical Tables Of The Tomb Of Ramses IV. ]
[ 304.jpg The Gods Fighting Foe The Magician Who Has Invoked Them. ]
[ 306.jpg The Child Horus on The Crocodiles. ]
[ 310.jpg A Dead Man Receiving the Breath of Life. ]
[ 315.jpg Th0t Records the Years of The Life Of Ramses. ]
[ 325.jpg Table of the Kings ]
[ 332.jpg Plan of the Ruins Of Abydos, Made by Mariette In 1865 and 1875. ]
[ 343.jpg Necklace, Bearing Name of Menes. ]
[ 350.jpg SatÎt Presents the Pharaoh AmenÔthes III. To KhnÔmÛ. ]
[ 353.jpg The Step Pyramid of Sauara. ]