A second series of the Manners and customs of the ancient Egyptians, including their religion, agriculture, &cDerived from a comparison of the paintings, sculptures, and monuments still existing, with the accounts of ancient authors . aXov, a prominence in the centre of the yoke, correspondingwith a peg or knob, torwp, at the end of the pole; to which it was con-nected by a ring, KpiKoc;, and then bound by the ^vyo^orfiov, or Q. 268., and siqmi. Vol. I. p. 383. % Vide suprci, woodcut. No. 422. p. 40. 4,4, THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS. CHAP. XI. ceremonies oxen frequently drew the bier, or t
A second series of the Manners and customs of the ancient Egyptians, including their religion, agriculture, &cDerived from a comparison of the paintings, sculptures, and monuments still existing, with the accounts of ancient authors . aXov, a prominence in the centre of the yoke, correspondingwith a peg or knob, torwp, at the end of the pole; to which it was con-nected by a ring, KpiKoc;, and then bound by the ^vyo^orfiov, or Q. 268., and siqmi. Vol. I. p. 383. % Vide suprci, woodcut. No. 422. p. 40. 4,4, THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS. CHAP. XI. ceremonies oxen frequently drew the bier, or thesacred shrine, by a rope fastened to the upper partof the horns, without either yoke or pole. * From a passage in Deuteronomy t, Thou shaltnot plow with an ox and an ass together, it mightbe inferred that the custom of yoking two differentanimals t to the plough was common in Egypt;but since no representation of it occurs in thesculptures, we may conclude, if it ever was donethere, that it was of very rare occurrence ; and it isprobable that the Hebrew lawgiver had in view apractice adopted by some of the people of Syria,whose country the Israelites were about to occupy,rather than the land of Egypt they had No. 424. Wooden 1. From the sculptures. Fig. 2. Found in a tomb. The name of the plough was 8>h^i § ; ploughedland appears to have been af>T, a word still traced * nrfc ??«/;•«, the Funeral Ceremonies. f Deut. xxii. 10. % I have often .seen it clone in ltal\-. The cruelty of the custom isevident, the horn of the ox wounding its companion. ^ This being the name of the capital of the Great Oasi-s, the ploughwas adopted as the hieroglyphic for that city. CHAP. XI. PLOUGH AND HOE. 45 in the Arabic luirtj which has the same import; andthe Greek a/jrjxpov, and Roman (natrum, appear toindicate, like the apoypa, an Egyptian origin. The hoe was of wood, and in form not unlike ourletter A, with one limb shorter than the other, andcurving inwar
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