Volume 1 — TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE
M. L. McClure translation
In completing the translation of this great work, I have to thank Professor Maspero for kindly permitting me to appeal to him on various questions which arose while preparing the translation. His patience and courtesy have alike been unfailing in every matter submitted for his decision.
I am indebted to Miss Bradbury for kindly supplying, in the midst of much other literary work for the Egypt Exploration Fund, the translation of the chapter on the gods, and also of the earlier parts of some of the first chapters. She has, moreover, helped me in my own share of the work with many suggestions and hints, which her intimate connection with the late Miss Amelia B. Edwards fully qualified her to give.
As in the original there is a lack of uniformity in the transcription and accentuation of Arabic names, I have ventured to alter them in several cases to the form most familiar to English readers.
The spelling of the ancient Egyptian words has, at Professor Maspero's request, been retained throughout, with the exception that the French ou has been invariably represented by û, e.g. Khnoumou by Khnûmû.
By an act of international courtesy, the director of the Imprimerie Nationale has allowed the beautifully cut hieroglyphic and cuneiform type used in the original to be employed in the English edition, and I take advantage of this opportunity to express to him our thanks and appreciation of his graceful act.
M. L. McClure.
List of Illustrations
003.jpg Chapter One
006.jpg The Mouth of The Nile Previous to The Formation Of the Delta.
009.jpg A Line of Laden Camels Emerges from A Hollow
010.jpg
011.jpg Part of Gebel Shêkh HerÎdi
012.jpg The Hill of Kasr Es-sayyad
014.jpg Entrance to the First Cataract
015.jpg Entrance to Nubia
016.jpg League Beyond League, the Hills Stretch on
018.jpg The Entrance to The First Cataract
020.jpg Entrance to the Second Catakact
022.jpg An Attempt to Represent the Egyptian Universe
023.jpg Footnotes With Graphics
027.jpg South Africa and the Sources of The Nile
031.jpg During the Inundation
034.jpg Assiout
036.jpg Entrance of the MudÎriyeh Of AsyÛt
037.jpg Forest of Date Palms
040.jpg Acacias at the Entrance to a Garden Outside EkhmÎm
041.jpg She-ass and Her Foal
042.jpg The UrÆus of Egypt
044.jpg The Ibis of Egypt
045.jpg The Mormyrus Oxyrhynchus
046.jpg Ahaka
047.jpg Two Fishermen Carrying a Latus
048.jpg The Nile God
049.jpg The Shrine of The Nile at Biggeh
051.jpg Nile Gods from the Temple of Seti I. At Abydos
055.jpg Libyan Mountains
059.jpg The Noble Type of Egyptian
060.jpg Head of a Tileban Mummy
060b.jpg Wrappings from a Mummy (Oil painting)
062.jpg A Fellah Woman With the Features of an Ancient King
066.jpg Negro Prisoners Wearing the Panther's Skin As A Loin-cloth.
068.jpg Notable Wearing the Large Cloak; Priest Wearing Panther's Skin
070.jpg A Dignitary Wrapped in his Large Cloak
072.jpg Costume of Egyptian Woman, Spinning
073.jpg Man Wearing Wig and Necklaces
074.jpg The Boomerang and Fighting Bow
075.jpg Votive Axe
076.jpg King Holding the Baton
077.jpg Fishing in the Marshes
078.jpg Hunting in the Marshes: Encountering a Hippopotamus
079.jpg Hunting in the Desert: Bull, Lion, and Oryx
080.jpg Catching Animals With the Bola
082.jpg A Swineherd and his Pigs
084.jpg The Egyptian Lotus
086.jpg The Egyptian Hoe
087.jpg Ploughing
089.jpg An Egyptian Saki (well) Procuring Water for Irrigation
091.jpg Boatmen Fighting on a Canal Communicating With The Nile
092.jpg A Great Egyptian Lord, Ti, and his Wife
094.jpg Nomes of Middle Egypt
096.jpg Nomes of Upper Egypt
099.jpg Nomes of Lower Egypt
105.jpg Page Image
106.jpg Page Image
107.jpg Page Image
108.jpg the Goddess NapkÎt, StapÎt
110.jpg Some Fabulous Beasts of the Egyptian Desert
113.jpb Some Fabulous Beasts of the Egyptian Desert
115.jpg NÛÎt the Starry One
116.jpg Goose-god Facing The Cat-goddess, The Lady Of Heaven
117.jpg the Cow HÂthor, The Lady Of Heaven
118.jpg Twelve Stages in The Life of The Sun and Its Twelve Forms
123.jpg Conception of the Principal Constellations of the Northern Sky
124.jpg Lunar Bark, Self-propelled, Under The Protection of the Two Eyes
125.jpg The Haunch, and The Female Hippopotamus
127.jpg Okion, Sothis, and Two Hokus-planets
128.jpg Sahu-orion.
129.jpg Orion and the Cow Sothis Separated by The Sparrow-hawk
131.jpg Amon-rÂ, As MÎnÛ of Coptos, Invested With His Emblems
133.jpg AnhÛri
134.jpg The Hawk-headed Hokus
136.jpg The Hoeus of HibonÛ, on The Back Of The Gazelle
138.jpg The Cat-headed Bast
139.jpg Two Images
141.jpg Nit of SaÏs
142.jpg ImhotpÛ
143.jpg NofirtÛmÛ
145.jpg Horus
147.jp The Black Shadow Coming out Into The Sunlight.
148.jpg August Souls of Osiris and Horus in Adoration
150.jpg The King After his Coronation
161.jpg Sacrificing to the Dead in The Tomb Chapel
164.jpg Phtah As a Mummy
167.jpg The Sacred Bull
169.jpg Open-air Offerings to the Serpent
171.jpg The Peasant's Offering to The Sycamore
173.jpg Sacrifice of The Bull.—Priest Lassoing the Victim
180.jpg Shu Uplifting the Sky
182.jpg ShÛ Forcibly Separating SibÛ and NÛÎt
183.jpg The DidÛ of Osiris
183b.jpg The DidÛ Dressed
185.jpg Osiris-onnophris, Whip and Crook in Hand
187.jpg Isis, Wearing the Cow-horn Head-dress
189.jpg Nephthys, As a Wailing Woman, and the God SÎt, Fighting
192.jpg Horus, the Avenger of his Father, and Anubis ÛapÔaÎtÛ
191.jpg The Sun Springing from an Opening Lotus-flower
194.jpg The Plain and Mounds of Heliopolis Fifty Years Ago
196.jpg HakmakhÛÎti-hakmakhis, the Great God
198.jpg Khopri, in his Bark
201.jpg The Twin Lions, ShÛ and TafnÛÎt
204.jpg The Four Funerary Genii, KhabsonÛf, TiÛmaÛtf, Hapi, and AmsÎt
208.jpg The Ibis Thot, and The Cynocephalous Thot
212.jpg The Hermopolitan Ogdoad
213.jpg Amon
215.jpg The Theban Ennead
218.jpg Tailpiece
219.jpg Page Image
220.jpg Page Image
221.jpg Page Image
224.jpg KhnÛmÛ Modelling Man Upon a Potter's Table.
230.jpg At the First Hour of The Day The Sun Embarks
236.jpg SokhÎt, the Lioness-headed.
242.jpg Cow, Sustained Above the Earth by ShÛ and The Support
244.jpg Three of the Divine Amulets Preserved
250.jpg the Osmian Triad Hokus. Osiris, Isis.
253.jpg Isis-hathor, Cow-headed.
256.jpg The Osirian Mummy Prepared
257.jpg The Reception Op The Mummy by Anubis
259.jpg Osikis in Hades, Accompanied by Isis, AmentÎt, And Nephthys
260.jpg The Deceased Climbing The Slope of The Mountain Of the West
261.jpg The Mummy of SÛtimosÛ Clasping his Soul Into His Arms.
262.jpg Cynocephali Drawing the Net in Which Souls Are Caught. 1
264.jpg Deceased and his Wife Seated in Front of The Sycamore of NÛÎt
266.jpg Deceased Piercing a Serpent With his Lance. 2
267.jpg Good Cow HÂthor Carrying The Dead Man and His Soul.
268.jpg Anubis and Thot Weighing the Heart of The Deceased
269.jpg The Deceased is Brought Before The Shrine Of Osiris the Judge
272B.jpg The Occupations of Ani in the Elysian Fields
275.jpg The Manes Tilling The Ground and Reaping in Fields
276.jpg UashbÎti.
277.jpg The Dead Man and his Wife Playing at Draughts In The Pavilion.
278.jpg The Dead Man Sailing in his Bark Along The Canals
279.jpg Boat of a Funerary Fleet on Its Way to Abydos.
280.jpg The Solar Bark Into Which The Dead Man is About To Enter.
282.jpg The Solar Bark Passing Into The Mountain of The West.
284.jpg The Soul Descending The Sepulchral Shaft
285.jpg The Soul on The Edge of The Funeral Couch
287.jpg The Soul Going Forth Into Its Garden by Day
289.jpg An Incident in the Wars of Haratheus and Sit
293.jpg One of the Astronomical Tables Of The Tomb Of Ramses IV.
304.jpg The Gods Fighting Foe The Magician Who Has Invoked Them.
306.jpg The Child Horus on The Crocodiles.
310.jpg A Dead Man Receiving the Breath of Life.
315.jpg Th0t Records the Years of The Life Of Ramses.
316.jpg Page Image
317.jpg Page Image
318.jpg Page Image
319.jpg Page Image
325.jpg Table of the Kings
332.jpg Plan of the Ruins Of Abydos, Made by Mariette In 1865 and 1875.
343.jpg Necklace, Bearing Name of Menes.
350.jpg SatÎt Presents the Pharaoh AmenÔthes III. To KhnÔmÛ.
351.jpg AnÛkit
353.jpg The Step Pyramid of Sauara.
356. Jpg One of the Chambers Of The Step-pyramid
357.jpg Tailpiece
