Encyclopædia biblica [electronic resource]; a critical dictionary of the literary, political and religious history, the archæology, geography, and natural history of the Bible . c—or ratherPathmetic (thus Ptol. and Pomp. Mela)—,>., the NorthernOa.^smhitiy-hy other wnters. 1 Not from the biblical Joseph. 2 Such calamities, sometimes in several successive vears. arernentipned repeatedly. A legend from the Ptolemaic period(inscription at the first cataract, found by Wilbour, translated byBrugsch, Die Bibhschen 7 Jahre der Hungersnot, 1891, andby Pleyte) reports seven years of famine before 300
Encyclopædia biblica [electronic resource]; a critical dictionary of the literary, political and religious history, the archæology, geography, and natural history of the Bible . c—or ratherPathmetic (thus Ptol. and Pomp. Mela)—,>., the NorthernOa.^smhitiy-hy other wnters. 1 Not from the biblical Joseph. 2 Such calamities, sometimes in several successive vears. arernentipned repeatedly. A legend from the Ptolemaic period(inscription at the first cataract, found by Wilbour, translated byBrugsch, Die Bibhschen 7 Jahre der Hungersnot, 1891, andby Pleyte) reports seven years of famine before 3000 Thestrange water-marks on the rocks of Nubia, 25 ft. above themodern level, are difficult to explain. They cannot well hef„M^ ^ Pfj *? ^^ lundations were so much higher,for that would involve our assuming that all ruins now exiltingwere, in antiquity, under water. for ,?I * ffl!^ Nilometers-wells with measures markedfrom ^^/^ufy ° > =-*^ °f Phite remains —(wearing water flowers on the head, and offeringIresh water and water flowers). Ssc&efnto^f *• ^?^ f^S]; and various ess^s1208 ?7lg —(weai-^ fresh w I. VALLEY OF NILE II. NILE AND EUPHRATES. MAPS OF (i.) COURSE OF NILE, AND (ii.) • NILE AND EUPHRATES* INDEX TO NAMES Parentheses indicating articles that refer to the place-names aie in certain cases added. The alphabetical arrange-ment ignores prefixes : el { the), J. [/ebel, mt.), L. {lake), tell { mound), wddy [valley). Abu Hamed, i. B4Abu Simbel, i. A3 (Egypt, § 37)Abydos, i. A2 (Egypt, § 44)Alalia, ii. A2 (Cyprus, § i)L. Albert, ii. A5Alexandria, i. Aitell el-Amarna, i. A2Amor, ii, A2 (Canaan, § 8)(Anti), i. B 3 (Ethiopia, § 4)Arko (Island), i. A4Aswan, i. A3 Asyut, i. A2 (Egypt, §§ 3, 6)Atbara (river), i. B4 Babil, ii. B2 Bahr el-Ghazal, ii. A5 Bahren I., ii. B3 jebel Barkal, i. A4 el-Behneseh, i. A2 Beni Hasan, i. A2 (Egypt, § 50) Berber, i. B4 Bitter Lakes, i. Ai Blue Nile, ii. A4 Cairo, i. Ai 1° Cataract, i. A3 2° Cataract, i. A3 3^
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