Bas-Reliefs From the Temple of Rameses I at Abydos (Volume 1-10)

 This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1921. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... Before the shrine stands the "Good God who creates splendors, Lord of the Two The king, queen, and Lands Pehtimenre', Lord of Festivals Ramessu" and behind him Queen Sitre', of devotees whose titles and name scarcely a trace is left. The king wears the Blue Crown with a veil of pleated crepe hanging behind, and a kilt with a lion's tail and a uraeus apron, the design of which gave the artist some little trouble, for traces are left of an original FIGURE 7 A MENIT FROM THE PALACE OF AMENHOTEP III IN THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM carving which has been considerably altered. The queen wears over her curled perruque the tall plumes of Isis and a fillet, of which the uraeus is crowned with Ha-thor's horns. Behind her neck hang streamers of ribbon, on her breast is a broad collar, and around her waist a knotted sash, whose brilliant colors must have con-trasted attractively with the white of her diaphanous linen dress.1 Following the king and queen there comes the procession of devotees carrying tall bouquets of flowers bound about reeds in which one would probably recognize papyrus stalks were their tops preserved. Each woman has thrown over her arm a menit and holds, with the 'The pattern of the dress is described by Miss Cartland, Bulletin of the M.M.A. 1916, p. 212, Fig. 6. bouquet, a sistrum, the two badges of her membership in the guild of temple choristers. Men and women both march with hands upheld before their faces, singing in unison a psalm in praise of Osiris, while their leader, the queen, tells the god that she is "rattling the sistra before thy beautiful face."1 The act of The office at which the votaries attend and at which the king officiates is the cul sacrifice minating act, the purification which consecrates the sacrifice by "the burning of incense and...

 

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1235377970
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1235377976