. Kings and gods of Egypt . Fig. II.—A Goats-Skin. Fig. 12.—Sharing the Drinking-Cup (Vlth Dynasty). among the hundreds of similar scenes that havebeen found in mastabas and hypogea and are yetunpublished, there will turn up ploughing-sceneswhich correspond to the one described in Homer. Harvest 2 Furthermore he set therein a demesne-land deep incorn, where hinds were reaping with sharp sickles in theirhands. Some armfuls along the swathe were falling inrows to the earth, while others the sheaf-binders werebinding in twisted bands of straw. Three sheaf-binders Lepsius, Denkmdler, ii, 106 b. 2
. Kings and gods of Egypt . Fig. II.—A Goats-Skin. Fig. 12.—Sharing the Drinking-Cup (Vlth Dynasty). among the hundreds of similar scenes that havebeen found in mastabas and hypogea and are yetunpublished, there will turn up ploughing-sceneswhich correspond to the one described in Homer. Harvest 2 Furthermore he set therein a demesne-land deep incorn, where hinds were reaping with sharp sickles in theirhands. Some armfuls along the swathe were falling inrows to the earth, while others the sheaf-binders werebinding in twisted bands of straw. Three sheaf-binders Lepsius, Denkmdler, ii, 106 b. 2 Iliad, xviii, 550-560. 236 Kings and Gods of Egypt stood over them, while behind, boys gathering corn,bearing it in their arms gave it constantly to the binders;and among them the lord in silence was standing at the. Fig. 13.—Harvesters (XVIIIth Dynasty). swathe with his staff, rejoicing in his heart. And hench-men apart beneath an oak were making ready a feast,and preparing a great ox they had sacrificed; while thewomen were strewing much white barley to be asupper for the All the essential features of this descriptionoccur in the Egyptian pictures of the harvest.
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