. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . ottle, a box for archives being placedbefore him. Behind them a nakht-lihrôâ announces the delivery of a tablet covered with figureswhich the third scribe is presenting to the master. s This is the refrain which occurs constantly in all the exercises for style given to scholars underthe New Empire (Maspero, Du Genre Épistolaire, pp. 28, 35, 38, 40, 49, 50, 66, 72, etc.). U 290 TEE POLITICAL CONSTITUTION OF EGYPT. life by keeping a register of the bread and vegetables in some provincialgovernment office, had been often known to crown his long and
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . ottle, a box for archives being placedbefore him. Behind them a nakht-lihrôâ announces the delivery of a tablet covered with figureswhich the third scribe is presenting to the master. s This is the refrain which occurs constantly in all the exercises for style given to scholars underthe New Empire (Maspero, Du Genre Épistolaire, pp. 28, 35, 38, 40, 49, 50, 66, 72, etc.). U 290 TEE POLITICAL CONSTITUTION OF EGYPT. life by keeping a register of the bread and vegetables in some provincialgovernment office, had been often known to crown his long and successfulcareer by exercising a kind of vice-regency over the half of Egypt. Hisgranaries overflowed with corn, his storehouses were always full of gold,fine stuffs, and precious vases, his stalls multiplied the backs of his oxen ;1the sons of his early patrons, having now become in turn his protégés, didnot venture to approach him except with bowed head and bended knee. No doubt the Amten whose tomb was removed to Berlin by Lepsius, and. THE CRIER ANNOUNCES THE ARRIVAL OF FIVE REGISTRARS OF THE TEMPLE OF KINGUSIRNIRÎ, OF THE Vth put together piece by piece in the museum, was a parvenu of this was born rather more than four thousand years before our era, underone of the last kings of the IIIrd dynasty, and he lived until the reignof the first king of the IVth dynasty, Snofrûi. He probably came fromthe Nome of the Bull, if not from Xoïs itself, in the heart of the father, the scribe Anûpûmonkhû, held, in addition to his office, severallanded estates, producing large returns ; but his mother, Nibsonît, whoappears to bave been merely a concubine, had no personal fortune, andwould have been unable even to give her child an education. Anûpûmonkhûmade himself entirely responsible for the necessary expenses, giving himall the necessities of life, àt a time when he had not as yet either corn,barley, income, house, men or women servants, or
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