. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . A DWARF PLAYING WITH CYNOCEFHALI AND A TAME llilS. stately ibis by the tail. From time to time the great lord proceeded toinspect his domain : on these occasions he travelled in a kind of sedanchair, supported by two mules yoked together; or he was borne in apalanquin by some thirty men, while fanned by large flabella ; or possibly. IN A NILE BOAT. he went up the Nile and the canals in his beautiful painted barge. Thelife of the Egyptian lords may be aptly described as in every respectan exact reproduction of the life of the Pharaoh on a smaller
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . A DWARF PLAYING WITH CYNOCEFHALI AND A TAME llilS. stately ibis by the tail. From time to time the great lord proceeded toinspect his domain : on these occasions he travelled in a kind of sedanchair, supported by two mules yoked together; or he was borne in apalanquin by some thirty men, while fanned by large flabella ; or possibly. IN A NILE BOAT. he went up the Nile and the canals in his beautiful painted barge. Thelife of the Egyptian lords may be aptly described as in every respectan exact reproduction of the life of the Pharaoh on a smaller Inheritance in a direct or indirect line was the rule, but in every case oftransmission the new lord had to receive the investiture of the sovereign either 1 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a chromolithograph in Flinders Petries Medûm, pl. tombs of Beni-Hassan, which belong to the latter end of the XIth and early part of theXIIth dynasties, furnish us with the most complete picture of this feudal life (Champollion, Monu-ments de lEgypte et de la Nubie, vol. ii. pp. 334-436 ; Lepsius, Denhm., ii. 123, et seq.)- Ail thofeatures of which it was composed, are to be found singly on monuments of the Memphite epoch. 300 TIIE POLITICAL CONSTITUTION OF EGYPT. by letter or in The duties enforced by the feudal state do not appearto have been onerous. In the f
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