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Title: The Archaeological journal
Year: 1844 (1840s)
Authors: British Archaeological Association. Central Committee Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Central Committee Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Central Committee Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Council Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland Royal Archaeological Institute (Great Britain)
Subjects: Archaeology -- Periodicals Middle Ages -- History Periodicals Great Britain -- Antiquities Periodicals
Publisher: (London : Longman, Rrown,(sic) Green, and Longman
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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eh, fourth dynasty. „ 2. Hieroglyph from Beni Hassan, twelfth dynasty. „ 3. Hieroglyph from Tomb of Rahotep, fourth dynasty ; Medum. „ 4. Sickle from a Harvest Scene, Beni Hassan, twelfth dynasty. „ 5. Harpe from a Vase from Capua, in Brit. Museum. „ 6. Harpe. Inghirami, Mon : Etr : i., 55. „ 7. Mitt: der Antiq : Geschell. Zurich Bd. xxii; pi. xviii; f. 3. „ 8. Upper view of fig. 9. „ 9. That part in outline is from Dr. Munros Lake Dwellings. PI.67 ; No. 12. He gives the total length of original as 396mm. The dotted part has been added by me as a mereindication of what might or could have been the originalidea. „ 10. Forward. ) „ 11. Middle. > teeth of Egyptian sickles. „ 12. Back J „ 13. & 14. Sections through denticulated teeth ,, 15. & 16. Iron sickles from Nimroud, in British Museum. The long handle of the scythe, as as we have it, arose in the cinque ctntorepresented in works of art, is probably period,rnedireval in date, and the figure of lime.
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WIDOWS AND VOWESSES. By J. L. ANDRE, F.S.A. A matrone grave and hore Whose onely joy was to relieve the needesOf wretched soules, and helpe the helpelesse pore ;All night she spent in bidding of her bedes,And all the day in doing good and goodly deedes. Spenser, At the present time mankind may be said to be dividedinto two states of life—the married and the unmarried ;but in the early ages of Christianity, and until the middleof the sixteenth century, there were three recogniseddivisions. iElfric, the Anglo-Saxon homilist, tells us ofthem in a sermon for the Feast of the Purification, inwhich he says, there are three states which bear witnessof Christ : that is maidenhood, and widowhood, and lawfulmatrimony.1 In another discourse, the same writeracquaints us with the comparative value of each. Themarriage house at Cana, he tells his hearers, was believedto have been three-floored, the lowest of believingmarried laymen ; the second, of widows living reputably ;and the third, and high

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