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 . 90 THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS. CHAP. XI. yourselves (twice) (4) measures for yourselves*, (5)measures for your masters ; similar to which may. !S C O •g s -g « 2 c tt ~ -a CO 9 ?^2 5 Hi|.r!l be found other songs in the sculptured tombst ofUpper Egypt. * Chanipollion has omitted this. f Vide Rosellini, vol. i. part ii. p. 311. CHAP. XI. THRESHING AND WINNOWING. 91 A ce
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 . 90 THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS. CHAP. XI. yourselves (twice) (4) measures for yourselves*, (5)measures for your masters ; similar to which may. !S C O •g s -g « 2 c tt ~ -a CO 9 ?^2 5 Hi|.r!l be found other songs in the sculptured tombst ofUpper Egypt. * Chanipollion has omitted this. f Vide Rosellini, vol. i. part ii. p. 311. CHAP. XI. THRESHING AND WINNOWING. 91 A certain quantity was first strewed in tliecentre of the area, and wlien this had been welltriturated by the animals feet, more was added bymeans of large wooden forks, from the main heap,raised around and forming the edge of the thresh-ing floor ; and so on till all the grain was troddenout. This process was called by the Latins tri-tura *, and was generally adopted by ancient, asby some modern people. Sometimes the cattlewere bound together by a piece of wood or a ropefastened to their horns, in order to force them togo round the heap, and tread it regularly, thedriver following behind them with a After the grain was trodden out, they winnowedit with wooden sliovels ; it was then carried tothe granary in sacks,each containing a fixed quan-tity, which
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