VOL. X.
Reading edition
Containing over Twelve Hundred Colored Plates and Illustrations
THE GROLIER SOCIETY PUBLISHERS, LONDON
CONTENTS
PREFACE
PUBLISHER’S NOTE
EGYPT UNDER THE PTOLEMIES
INTRODUCTORY ESSAY
CHAPTER I—EGYPT CONQUERED BY THE GREEKS
CHAPTER II—EGYPT UNDER PTOLEMY SOTER
CHAPTER III.—PTOLEMY PHILADELPHUS. B.C. 284-246
CHAPTER IV—PTOLEMY EUERGETES, PTOLEMY PHILOPATOR, AND PTOLEMY
CHAPTER V—PTOLEMY PHILOMETOR AND PTOLEMY EUERGETES II.
CHAPTER VI—THE GROWTH OF ROMAN INFLUENCE IN EGYPT
CHAPTER VII—CLEOPATRA AND HER BROTHERS
List of Illustrations
Spines
Cover
Frontispiece
Titlepage
001.jpg Page Image
002.jpg Page Image
015.jpg Page Image—alexandria
019.jpg Transporting Grain on the Nile
021.jpg Phtah the God of Memphis
027.jpg Lighthouse at Alexandria
031.jpg Page Image
036.jpg the DÔm Palm.
040.jpg a Silhouette on the Nile
044.jpg Crocodiles Basking in the Sun
049.jpg a Theban Belle
049b.jpg Prayer to Isis
052.jpg Tombs of the Sacred Bulls
055.jpg the God Serapis
056.jpb Manuscript on Papyrus; Hieroglyphics, Thebes
057.jpg Alexander Adoring Horus
062.jpg on the Coast of The Red Sea
081.jpg Alexandrian Lady, Attired in Bombyx Silk
082.jpg Egyptian Coinage
083.jpg Coin of Soter, With Jupiter
092.jpg the Chariot of Antiphilus
095.jpg Berenice Soter
098.jpg Nit, Goddess of Sais.
099.jpg a Cat Mummy
100.jpg Tailpiece
101.jpg Page Image
102.jpg Pharos in Old Alexandria
106.jpg Bronze Cosmetic Holder
112.jpg Rosetta Branch of the Nile
116.jpg Temple of Philae
118.jpg Anubis, God of the Lower World
120.jpg at the Head of The Red Sea
123.jpg the Cararact on The Aswan
128.jpg an Athlete Disporting on a Crocodile
131.jpg Modern Sphinx-like Face
137.jpg Method of Egyptian Draftsmanship
141.jpg Coin With the Heads of Soter and Philadelphus And Arsinoë
142.jpg Coin With the Heads of Soter, Philadelphus And Berenice
143.jpg Coin of ArsinoË, Sister Of Ptolemy II.
149.jpg a Typical Nile Pilot
153.jpg Page Image
157.jpg an Abyssinian Slave
160b.jpg Signs, Arms and Instruments from the Fifth Tomb
161.jpg Gate at Karnak
163.jpg Ruins of Sais
169.jpg Gateway of Ptolemy Euergetes at Karnak
175.jpg Coin of Ptolemy III.
176.jpg Coin of Berenice, Wife Of Ptolemy III.
187.jpg Temple of Hathor.
188jpg Coin of Ptolemy Philopater
189.jpg Coin of Arsinoe Philopate
196.jpg Roman Coin, Issued Under Ptolemy V.
201.jpg the Rosetta Stone (british Museum)
207.jpg Outside Rosetta
210.jpg a Desert Road Between Egypt and Syria.
212.jpg Tailpiece
215.jpg Page Image
219.jpg Temple of Hermonthis.
223.jpg Garden Near Heliopolis
227.jpg Temple of Apollonopolis
234.jpg the Apotheosis of Homer
235.jpg Hero’s Rotating Steam Engine
237.jpg Coin of Ptolemy V.
241.jpg Temple of Hathor at Philae
242b.jpg Color Plate
249.jpg Obelisk at Heliopolis
254.jpg Nilometer at Rhodha
256b.jpg Suk El Saleh, Cairo
260.jpg Temple of Kom Ombo.
268.jpg Temple Portico at Contra-latopoli
274.jpg Coin of Cleopatra and Alexander
275.jpg Coin of Cleopatra and Alexander, With Eagles
276.jpg the Memnonium at Thebes
280.jpg Coin of Ptolemy Lathyrus and Selene.
287.jpg Horus on the Crocodiles. Bulak Museum.
289.jpg Religious Procession on the Nile
291.jpg Egyptian Funeral Ceremonies
293.jpg Mummy, Mummy-cases, and Casket
295.jpg Development of Egyptian Caricature
297.jpg the Mines of Maghara
309.jpg Vocal Statue of Memnon
312.jpg the Sphinx
314.jpg
314b.jpg Bearers of Evil Tidings
315.jpg Page Image
317.jpg Pillar of Pompey at Alexandria
333.jpg Ruins of Hermonthis
338.jpg Egyptian Picture of Cleopatra
346.jpg Coin of Cleopatra and Anthony
347.jpg Later Coin of Cleopatra and Antony.
351.jpg Greek Picture of Cleopatra
357.jpg Grand Column at Karnak
362.jpg Cleopatra’s Needle.
364.jpg Graeco-egyptian Column