. The history of Herodotus. A new English version, ed. with copious notes and appendices, illustrating the history and geography of Herodotus, from the most recent sources of information; and embodying the chief results, historical and ethnographical, which have been obtained in the progress of cuneiform and hieroglyphical discovery . ales ofbricks, the bringing of the straw, andthe Egyptian taskmasters set over theforeign workmen. Aristophanes (Birds,!, and Progs, 1647) speaks of theEgyptian bridklayers and labourers asnoted workmen, but without describingthe manufacture of bricks. The T
. The history of Herodotus. A new English version, ed. with copious notes and appendices, illustrating the history and geography of Herodotus, from the most recent sources of information; and embodying the chief results, historical and ethnographical, which have been obtained in the progress of cuneiform and hieroglyphical discovery . ales ofbricks, the bringing of the straw, andthe Egyptian taskmasters set over theforeign workmen. Aristophanes (Birds,!, and Progs, 1647) speaks of theEgyptian bridklayers and labourers asnoted workmen, but without describingthe manufacture of bricks. The Theban bricks of Thothmes 1 ft. by 075,and 0*55 in thick-ness?, weighing .37 lbs. 10 ozs.; and oneof Amunoph III., in the British Museum,is 0-11-3 inches by 0-5-8, and 0-3-9 inthickness, and weighs 13 lbs.; but thoseof the Pyramid of Howara are 1 ft. 5 0-8-8 to 0-8-9, and 0-3-8 thick, andweigh 48 lbs. 6 ozs. They were frequently stamped with a kings name while making, as Romanburnt bricks were with the names of agod, a place, a consul, a legion, a maker,or with some other mark. Vitruviusthinks that crude bricks were not fit foruse in Italy, till they were two yearsold ; and the people of Utica kept themfor five years. (Vitruv. 2, 3.) Thoughthe Jews are not distinctly mentionedon the Egyptian monuments, and the. copyists of Manetho have confoundedthem with the Shepherds, it is not im-possible that the name of the city ofAbaris may point to that of the Hebrews,or Mariiiinnay (Gen. xi. 1 .3;.—[G. W.] 2 The superiority of this over the\stone pyramids has been supposed to Γbe in the invention or adoption of Jthe arch, forming the roof of its cham- ■bers and passages. But this Avouldrequire Asychis to have lived at leastbefore the 18th dynasty, arches beingcommon in the reign of Amunoph I.,the second king of that dynasty, and .possibly long before his time. Here * 1again Herodotus appears to have con-founded an earlier and a later king.(On the early use of the a
Size: 1913px × 1306px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorherodotus, bookcentury1800, booksubjecthistoryancient
