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Egyptian Tales 1st Series

Auhtor: W Flinders Petrie

Language: english

Genres:

classic
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Review by Stephen M. Charme, August 2006


Rating: (****)
Copyright: Public Domain in the U.S.
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Excerpts from the Book 'Egyptian Tales 1st Series':

... To avoid offence a few little modifications of words have been made but rather than give a false impression by tampering with any of the narrative, ...
... author and the reader: the one cannot resent it, the other therefore resents it for both. But what is to be deemed needless entirely depends on the ...
... whither he went. And his majesty the king of Upper and Lower Egypt, Nebka, the blessed, commanded, and they brought forth the wife of Uba-aner to the ...
... bring him to me. Then were the ships made ready for the king's son Hordedef, and he went up the stream to Dedsneferu. And when the ships had moored ...
... furnish your altars with offerings, supply your tables of libation, and increase your endowments. Then went these deities their fashion they made as ...
... on the floor. And he said to her, Whither goest thou, my little maid. And she told him of all these things. And her brother said to her, Wherefore ...
... the detail of the story. The oars were one on each side of the stern, and were each managed by a steerer. From the tale we see that the steerer ...
... temples, furnish the altars with offerings, supply the tables of libations, and increase the religious endowments. The names of the three children ...
... celebrate thy name in this land for every virtue. A guide without greediness of heart A great one without any meanness. Destroying deceit, encouraging ...
... the Lord Steward, Moreover, thou shalt be satisfied when thou shalt hear of thy complaints He caused to be written on a clean roll of papyrus each ...
... in those days, and this papyrus really seems to show the time when long-drawn comparisons and flowery wishes were in fashion. It is far different from ...
... be four months in this isle. Then a ship shall come from thy land with sailors, and thou shalt leave with them and go to thy country, and thou shalt ...
... is in M. Golenischeff's excellent Inventaire de la collection Egyptienne (Ermitage Imperial), p. 177-182. The tale is that of a returned sailor, ...
... by the edge of the road. He asked of me mercy, for he feared me. By the evening I drew near to Kher-ahau (. old Cairo), and I crossed the river on ...
... I set on his way him who went astray, and I rescued the robbed. The Sati who went far, to strike and turn back the princes of other lands, I ordained ...
... Ra, Horus, Hathor, Atmu, and of his fellow-gods, of Sopdu, Neferbiu, Samsetu, Horus, lord of the east, and of the royal uraeus which rules on thy ...
... to this traveller, Samehit the Pedti, born in the land of Egypt, Who fled away from fear of thee, And fled this land from thy terrors. Does not the ...
... inscriptions of the early tombs. Possibly some day the tomb of Sanehat may be found, and the whole inscription be read complete upon the walls. The ...
... Dunn. The set combat of two champions seems-by the large gathering-to have been a well-recognised custom among the Tenu, while it exactly accords ...
... his early days and habits and friendships would overwhelm his mind and make it difficult to collect his thoughts. Sanehat's appearance was so much changed ...