. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . of theamulets placed in the tomb with the deceased, to secure for him the protection of the goddess(Maspero, Guide du Visiteur, p. 273, No. 4155). 2 Mariette, Abydos (vol. i. pi. 48 b, 53). To prevent the animal from evading the lasso andescaping during the sacrifice, its right hind foot was fastened to its left horn. 3 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a painting in a Theban tomb of the XVIIIth dynasty. 4 I have often been obliged, from politeness, when dining with the native agents appointed by theEuropean powers at Port Said, to eat salads and may
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . of theamulets placed in the tomb with the deceased, to secure for him the protection of the goddess(Maspero, Guide du Visiteur, p. 273, No. 4155). 2 Mariette, Abydos (vol. i. pi. 48 b, 53). To prevent the animal from evading the lasso andescaping during the sacrifice, its right hind foot was fastened to its left horn. 3 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a painting in a Theban tomb of the XVIIIth dynasty. 4 I have often been obliged, from politeness, when dining with the native agents appointed by theEuropean powers at Port Said, to eat salads and mayonnaise sauces flavoured with castor-oil; thetaste was not so disagreeable as might be at first imagined. PLANTS USED FOR FOOD. 65 disuse, and only reappeared at sacrifices, or at funeral feasts ; several varietiescontinue to be eaten to the present time—the acid fruits of the nabeca andof the carob tree, the astringent figs of the sycamore, the insipid pulp of thedom-palm, besides those which are pleasant to our Western palates, such as the. immemorial the art of making wine from it was known, and even themost ancient monuments enumerate half a dozen famous brands, red or , lupins, beans, chick-peas, lentils, onions, fenugreek,3 the baniiâ,4the meloukhia,5 the arum colocasia,6 all grew wild in the fields, and the riveritself supplied its quota of nourishing plants. Two of the species of lotus 1 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin from the Description de lÉgypte, Histoire Naturelle, pl. 61. 2 On the wines of Egypt under the Pharaohs, cf. Brcgsch, Reise nacli der Grossen Oase el-Khargeh,pp. 90-93. The four kinds of canonical wine, brought respectively from the north, south, east, andwest of the country, formed part of the official repast and of the wine-cellar of the deceased fromremote antiquity. 3 All these species have been found in the tombs and identified by savants in archaeologicalbotany—Kunth, Unger, Schweinfurth (Loret, La Flore Pharaonique, pp. 17, 40, 42, 43, N
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