Category: History - Ancient
THE GENERAL CHARACTER OF EGYPTIAN CIVILIZATION. § 1. Egypt's place in the History of the World § 2. The Valley of the Nile and its Inhabitants § 3. The Great Divisions of Egyptian History § 4. The Constitution of Egyptian Society--Influence of that Constitution upon Monuments...
THE GENERAL CHARACTER OF EGYPTIAN CIVILIZATION. § 1. Egypt's place in the History of the World § 2. The Valley of the Nile and its Inhabitants § 3. The Great Divisions of Egypti...
2. CHAPTER II.PRINCIPLES AND GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF EGYPTIAN ARCHITECTURE. § 1. Method to be Employed by us in our Study of this Architecture § 2. General Principles of Form § 3. General...
3. CHAPTER III.SEPULCHRAL ARCHITECTURE. § 1. The Egyptian Belief as to a Future Life and its Influence upon their Sepulchral Architecture § 2. The Tomb under the Ancient Empire The Mastabas of...
4. CHAPTER IV.THE SACRED ARCHITECTURE OF EGYPT. § 1. The Temple under the Ancient Empire § 2. The Temple under the Middle Empire § 3. The Temple under the New Empire § 4. General Characterist...
5. CHAPTER I.Egypt is the eldest daughter of civilization. In undertaking to group the great nations of antiquity and to present them in their proper order, in attempting to assign to each i...
6. CHAPTER II.In the enterprise which we have undertaken the study of oriental art is but an introduction to that of Greece. Without an attentive examination of its remains we should be unabl...
7. CHAPTER III.In every country the forms and characteristics of the sepulchre are determined by the ideas of the natives as to the fate of their bodies and souls after life is over. In order...
8. chapter XC. of the _Ritual_, which shows us the dead tilling, sowingand harvesting in the fields of the other world. The texts of the Ritual and of certain inscriptions call these little figures _oushebti_ or _answerers_ from the verb _ousheb_,...
9. CHAPTER IV.No statue of a god is known which can be confidently referred to the first six dynasties. Hence it has sometimes been asserted that at that early period the Egyptian gods were n...
10. part iii. p. 136.) This is natural enough. Amen was a ThebanIf the inscription and the figured representations still existing upon a certain stele which was found a short distance eastward of the pyramid of Cheops[286] are to be taken li...
11. part i. plates 125, 127, and 128.The peripteral arrangement, which is a constant principle in Greek architecture, is no more than a rare accident in that of Egypt. But in spite of this difference the similarity...
12. part i. pl. 115.)Here too we find a very simple form of temple, but the naos being large enough to admit, and even to demand, the use of internal columns, it never entered the architect's head t...