. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . ree with Fr. Lenormant (op cit., pp. 104, 105), in his conclusion that the only kind of nationalmetal of exchange in use in Egypt was a copper wire or plate bent thus ^=>, c=f, this being thesign invariably used in the hieroglyphics in writing the word tabnû. 2 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, after a sketch by Kosellini, Monumenti cioili, pl. Hi. 1. As to the con-struction of the Egyptian scales, andthe working of their various parts, see Flinders Petries remarks inA Season in Egxjpt, p. 42, and the drawings which he has brought together on pi. xx. o
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . ree with Fr. Lenormant (op cit., pp. 104, 105), in his conclusion that the only kind of nationalmetal of exchange in use in Egypt was a copper wire or plate bent thus ^=>, c=f, this being thesign invariably used in the hieroglyphics in writing the word tabnû. 2 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, after a sketch by Kosellini, Monumenti cioili, pl. Hi. 1. As to the con-struction of the Egyptian scales, andthe working of their various parts, see Flinders Petries remarks inA Season in Egxjpt, p. 42, and the drawings which he has brought together on pi. xx. of the same work. 3 The weighing of rings is often represented on the monuments from the XVIIIth dynastyonwards (Lepsius, Denlcm., iii. 10 a, 39 a, d, etc.). I am not acquainted with any instance of this onthe bas-reliefs of the Ancient Empire. The giving of false weight is alluded to in the paragraph inthe Negative Confession, in which the dead man declares that he has not interfered with thebeam of the scales (cf. p. 189 of the present work).. ONE OF THE FORMS OF EGYPTIAN
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