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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ... Although I could not detect anything in their upraised hands, the round stones which seem to have been the only hammers the Egyptians ever possessed, must necessarily be supplied, as in the corresponding scene in the tomb of Zau. 2 The readiness with which the ancient artist resolved a complex perspective into simple elements, and trusted to the common sense of his spectators to make the proper change mentally, is nowhere better exemplified than in this instance. Register 5.--Family Of Aba, Etc. The patriarchal dignity of the deceased is enhanced, as usual, by the presence of his family as well as by the exhibition of his numerous retainers and serfs. His wife and seven sons are here represented, the latter of whom share only four names between them; in face, however, of the many examples of such a practice we may accept the record as true (see p. 12). A scene follows here so inappropriately that it must have been added merely to fill the vacant corner. It really belongs to the series on the W. side of the wall, and represents what was an important branch of farm economy, the keeping of fowl. Here two pens are stocked, the one with cranes, the other with geese, and grain is being thrown to them from a bag by an attendant. In the goose-pen apparently a shelving basin is provided for the birds to swim in. The hollow is indicated by adding two sections of it to the combined plan and elevation of the pen.3 East Wall. (Plate vii.) The scenes on this wall have but little interest, are roughly executed, and are, in addition, in a very bad state of preservation. But the inscriptions are of such value as to make their fragmentary condition a matter of deep regret. The motive of the designer here was essentially biographical, not, however, with the view of merely en...