. The pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy land including a complete history of the Jews. rs thus bound are represented on * BUmn el Mehmli, i. e. the Gates of tlie Kings, at Tliebes. their knees while the blood spouts in a fullstream from a mortal woimd which has beeninflicted by striking some weapon into thecrown of their heads. In this case not only isthe mode of death unusually horrible, but the • This portion of the scene has been omitted in our cut forwant of room. t Richardsons Travels along the Mediterranean, vol. ;. 299. 584 HISTORY OF PALESTINE. [Book IV. active agents,
. The pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy land including a complete history of the Jews. rs thus bound are represented on * BUmn el Mehmli, i. e. the Gates of tlie Kings, at Tliebes. their knees while the blood spouts in a fullstream from a mortal woimd which has beeninflicted by striking some weapon into thecrown of their heads. In this case not only isthe mode of death unusually horrible, but the • This portion of the scene has been omitted in our cut forwant of room. t Richardsons Travels along the Mediterranean, vol. ;. 299. 584 HISTORY OF PALESTINE. [Book IV. active agents, who bind the victims and holdthem behind as they bleed to death, are , as well as the peculiarity of the mode ofdeath, would seem clearly enough to indicatea religious intention in this immolation ; for itis altogether unlikely and iucredible that women should be parties in such a matterotherwise than as priestesses of the deity towhom the victims are offered. And whatever sense be given to this actmust be equally ascribed to that whichfollows, seeing that it is found in the same. [3. Human Sacrifice.] tomb, and under the same circumstances, bothbeing in fact two of various scenes of immolation and carnage which the tomb it also be noted that the cut at the head ofthe last page is from another of these tombs, andas THAT is a self-evident scene of human sacri-fice, it is obvious to infer that the correspond-ing but less definite scenes in the other tombshave the same object. It is true that M. Jo-mard* thinks the scenes that the subjects re-presented in the two preceding cuts representthe immolation of slaves at the funeral ofkings. But the tomb which affords thefirst of our cuts had not been discoveredwhen this author wrote, and he wanted theillustration it was calculated to afford to theothers. Besides, we have no historical know-ledge that the practice of immolating victimsat the sepulture of kings, existed among theEgyptians, whereas we have the dist
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