. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . measuring the wheat and depositing it in the DEPOTS FOR TEE RECEIPT OF TAXES. 287 Administration. We see from the inscriptions, that the staffs of officials whoadministered affairs in the provinces was similar to that in the royal from the top, and going down to the bottom of the scale, each func-tionary supervised those beneath him, while, as a body, they were all respon-sible for their depot. Any irregularity in the entries entailed the bastinado ;. PLAN OP A TRINCELY STOREHOUSE FOR peculators were punish
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . measuring the wheat and depositing it in the DEPOTS FOR TEE RECEIPT OF TAXES. 287 Administration. We see from the inscriptions, that the staffs of officials whoadministered affairs in the provinces was similar to that in the royal from the top, and going down to the bottom of the scale, each func-tionary supervised those beneath him, while, as a body, they were all respon-sible for their depot. Any irregularity in the entries entailed the bastinado ;. PLAN OP A TRINCELY STOREHOUSE FOR peculators were punished by imprisonment, mutilation, or death, according tothe gravity of the offence. Those whom illness or old age rendered unfit forwork, were pensioned for the remainder of their The writer,3 or, as we call him, the scribe, was the mainspring of all this (Champollion, Monuments de VÉgypte et de la Nubie, pl. cxli. ; Kosellini, Monumenti Civili, pl. , 2; Lepsius, Denlm., iii. 11 a). 1 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from Lepsius, Denlcm., iii. 95. The illustration is taken from oneot the tombs at Tel el-Amarna. The storehouse consists of four blocks, isolated by two avenuesplanted with trees, which intersect each other in the form of a cross. Behind the entrance gate, ina small courtyard, is a kiosque, in which the master sat for the purpose of receiving the stores or ofsuperintending their distribution ; two of the arms of the cross are lined by porticoes, under whichare the entrances to the chambers (ait) for the
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