By Nile and Tigris : a narrative of Journeys in Egypt and Mesopotamia on behalf of the British Museum between the years 1886 and 1913 . was the central slab of a monument ninefeet high, inscribed in Greek with a statement of thebenefits which Ptolemy X (Soter II) had conferred uponthe priesthood of the Island of Elephantine.* Thisimportant stone was being used as a doorstep by itsowner. I bought the slab at a very moderate price,but one swallow does not make a summer, and I felt thatI must obtain other objects if I would justify myMission to Egypt. Whilst I was casting about in my mind how and
By Nile and Tigris : a narrative of Journeys in Egypt and Mesopotamia on behalf of the British Museum between the years 1886 and 1913 . was the central slab of a monument ninefeet high, inscribed in Greek with a statement of thebenefits which Ptolemy X (Soter II) had conferred uponthe priesthood of the Island of Elephantine.* Thisimportant stone was being used as a doorstep by itsowner. I bought the slab at a very moderate price,but one swallow does not make a summer, and I felt thatI must obtain other objects if I would justify myMission to Egypt. Whilst I was casting about in my mind how and whereto obtain such objects, good fortune, in a somewhat ^ The Egyptians seem to have taken over the ItaUan adjectiveantica and turned it into a noun ; at all events we have antika \X;Jm\,with the plural an/ikdt ^\i^\. It is possible that they have confoundedantica with their own word attkah ik^ ancient, plur. ^^tU^ apply antica, or anticat, to all kinds of curiosities as well asantiquities, and they have given it an Arabic form. ^ See Guide to the Egyptian Galleries (Sculpture), p. 261, No. 963. To face p. 07, vol. i. 1^. u:?-
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