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 . ear **with a toothed sickle, and carried to the threshingfloor in wicker baskets upon asses +t, or in rope ttnets, the gleaners following to collect the fallenears in hand baskets. The rope net, answering to * Lianaeus gives the name of Rhamnus Spina Christi, to a differentplant: and the Nebeca or Nebk, the Zizyphus, and others of this kind,come under the general
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 . ear **with a toothed sickle, and carried to the threshingfloor in wicker baskets upon asses +t, or in rope ttnets, the gleaners following to collect the fallenears in hand baskets. The rope net, answering to * Lianaeus gives the name of Rhamnus Spina Christi, to a differentplant: and the Nebeca or Nebk, the Zizyphus, and others of this kind,come under the general denomination of Rhamnus. There appears to besome confusion lietween the Lycium and the Rhanmus. t Vol. II. p. 397. if Conf. Diodor. i. 36. They return after four or five months tocut the corn. Pliny (xviii. 7.) says barley in the 6th and wheat in the7th month. § Plin. xviii. 18. II Vide my (ieneral View of Egypt, p. 261. IT Genes, xli. 22. ** Conf. Job, xxiv. 24. Cut off as the tops of the cars of corn. ft fide woodcut, No. 4-29. Jigs. -t. and .5. Xt f<lt woodcut, No. and 7. G O 86 THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS. CHAP. XI. the Shenfeh of modem Egypt, was borne on a poleby two men ; and the threshing floor was a level. CHAP. XI. THRESHING, OR TRITURA. 87
Size: 1223px × 2044px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1840, bookpubl, booksubjectagriculture
