. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . nequal distancesby enormous buttresses. These resembled towers without parapets, overlookingevery part of the encircling road, and from them the defenders could take the 1 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a photograph of the original in the museum at Florence. 2 The Egyptian name of Semneh, Samninû-Kharp-Khâkerî, is given in an inscription of the IIIrdye*»r of Sovkhotpû I. (E. de Rougé, Inscription des rochers de Semnéh, in the Revue Archéologique,aeries 1, vol. v. p. 312 ; Lepsius, Denkm., ii. 151 c), where, up to the present, no one appears to hav
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . nequal distancesby enormous buttresses. These resembled towers without parapets, overlookingevery part of the encircling road, and from them the defenders could take the 1 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a photograph of the original in the museum at Florence. 2 The Egyptian name of Semneh, Samninû-Kharp-Khâkerî, is given in an inscription of the IIIrdye*»r of Sovkhotpû I. (E. de Rougé, Inscription des rochers de Semnéh, in the Revue Archéologique,aeries 1, vol. v. p. 312 ; Lepsius, Denkm., ii. 151 c), where, up to the present, no one appears to havegone to look for it. We meet it in the abridged forms of Saminit, Samine, in a text of the Ptolemaicperiod (Dumichen, Geographische Inschriften, vol. ii. pi. lxxi. c) : an inscription in barbaric Greekwrites it Sammina, and acquaints us with the name of Kummeh, spelt Koummou, the Egyptian formof which is not ceitain (Lepsius, Ueber einen alien Nilmesser hei Semne in Nubien, in the Monatsberichteof tbe Berlin Academy of Sciences, 1844).. THE TlilUBIPIlAL STELE OF ÛS1RTASEN 486 TUE FIRST TIIEDAN EMPIRE. attacking sappers in flank. The intervals between them had been so calculatedas to enable the archers to sweep the intervening space with their main building is of crude brick, with beams laid horizontally between ;the base of the external rampart is nearly vertical, while the upper part formsan angle of some seventy degrees with the horizon, making the scaling of it,
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