Notes For The Nile by Hardwicke D. Rawnsley

Author:Hardwicke D. Rawnsley [Rawnsley, Hardwicke D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781317792673
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2013-12-02T00:00:00+00:00

1. Called also Tiu-aquen and Se-qenen-Ra. His body may be seen at the Gîzeh Museum, with the death-wound upon his forehead.

2. It is now known that she was the daughter of Tushratta the king of Mitanni. Interesting correspondence-tablets between the king and the court of Babylon, Mesopotamia, and Phœnicia have been lately discovered at Tell el-Amama.

3. A picture of this canal is preserved to us on the exterior north wall of Karnak. Seti I. is represented in his chariot, driving three strings of prisoners of war before him, and just about to cross it. (See Ebers’s “Egypt Illustrated,” pt. ii. p. 21.)

4. A picture of this tablet is given us in Ebers’s “Egypt Illustrated,” part ii. p. 212.

5. The Temple of Kûrnah.

6. The civil name of Thebes was Api, or Apiu—i.e., the City of Thrones: with the article t or ta prefixed, it became Ta-Apiu ; hence, by corruption, Thebes. Its sacred name was Nu—i.e., the City; or Nu-amen—i.e., the City of Amen, the No or No-amon of Scripture.

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