The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . arious mum-mies and on many other Egyptian representa-tions. Sonnini says (vol. iii, p. 204) : The Egyp-tian women have no other clothing than a longshift, or jacket, of blue cloth, with sleeves of anextraordinary size. This manner of dressingthemselves by halves, so that the air may circu-late over the body itself and refresh every part ofit, is very comfortable in a country where close
The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . arious mum-mies and on many other Egyptian representa-tions. Sonnini says (vol. iii, p. 204) : The Egyp-tian women have no other clothing than a longshift, or jacket, of blue cloth, with sleeves of anextraordinary size. This manner of dressingthemselves by halves, so that the air may circu-late over the body itself and refresh every part ofit, is very comfortable in a country where close or thick habits wouldmake the lie at intoler-able. We must notjudge of the propriety ofEgyptian costumes bythe necessary defensesagainst the variations andchills of northern cli-mates. The reader willobserve the head-dress inthis figure; the hair, whichwe presume is meant torepresent curls; the pec-toral, the covering of thebosom; the petticoat, itsborder, ornaments, etc. 7. Brides figure represents anOriental lady in full dress,from Le Bruyn. (1) Head-Dress. Thereader will observe thehead-dress, which con-sists of a cap set withpearls in various forms, Dress. the center hanging over. CANTICLES 363 CANTICLES the forehead. On the top of this cap rise a numberof sprigs of jewelry work, which imitate, in pre-cious stones, the natural colors, etc., of the flow-ers they are meant to represent. The stems aremade of gold or silver wires, and the leaves, wesuppose, are made of colored foil. We saw, inthe former plate, that Egyptian ladies wore ahigh-rising composition of ornaments; and wesee in this figure a composition little, if at all,less aspiring. In fact, then, this head-dress ren-ders very credible the idea of our translators,thy head-dress upon thee is like Carmel!—whether, by Carmel, we understand Mount Car-mel, in which case the allusion may be to thetrees growing on it; or, as the word signifies,a fruitful field, whose luxuriant vegetation dis-plays the
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