The New York coach-maker's magazine . uled Egypt about 20 years after Meneph-tha III ( 1474), alluded to in our last chapter, in thenineteenth dynasty of six Theban kings. The copies fromthe bas-reliefs at Medeenet Haboo, given by Rosellini,illustrative of events in the life of Ramses IV, extendfrom cxxix to cxl. The first represents the king in hischariot on a lion hunt, one animal being represented onhis back, and another escaping into the forest, both withdarts fastened in their bodies. In this later example ofthe chariot, the front portion of the body stands nearlyperpendicular and str
The New York coach-maker's magazine . uled Egypt about 20 years after Meneph-tha III ( 1474), alluded to in our last chapter, in thenineteenth dynasty of six Theban kings. The copies fromthe bas-reliefs at Medeenet Haboo, given by Rosellini,illustrative of events in the life of Ramses IV, extendfrom cxxix to cxl. The first represents the king in hischariot on a lion hunt, one animal being represented onhis back, and another escaping into the forest, both withdarts fastened in their bodies. In this later example ofthe chariot, the front portion of the body stands nearlyperpendicular and straight, but rounding at the top backcorners, the sides having but a small opening. On platecxxii the king sits in his chariot, with his back to thehorses, while the scribes number the slain in a late vic-tory, by counting the severed hands, now brought togetherfor this purpose. The two following plates represent theking as offering to Amun his fettered victims, in accord-ance with Egyptian custom, in acknowledgment of favorsin
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