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The rocks of the island of Sehel with some of the votive inscriptions. Drawn by Boudier from a photograph taken by Dévèria in 1864.

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Title: The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916
Subjects: Civilization
Publisher: London : S.P.C.K.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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). 3 Lancret, Description de lîle de Philx, in the Description de lEgypte, vol. i. pp. 5-7). Lancrothad recognized the great antiquity of this wall, though Letronne afterwards tried to make out that itwas not built till the time of Diocletian (Recueil des Inscriptions grecques et latines de lEgypte, vol. ii.p. 211, et seq.). I have already had occasion to state that it is much older than was supposed (Recueilde Travaux, vol. xiii. p. 204), but I had not ventured to place it so far back as the XII dynasty. 4 Cf. the inscription of the time of Ûsirtasen III., and that of the reign of Thûtmosis III., which havebeen published by Wilbour, Canalizing the Cataract, in the Recueil de Travaux, vol. xiii. pp. 202, 203. 5 Bouriant, Notes de Voyage, § 20, in the Recueil de Travaux, vol. xv. pp. 187-189 ; J. deMorgan, Notice sur les Fouilles, p. 11, and Catalogue Général, vol. i. pp. 77, 78, 82, 83. 6 They have been partly collected by Champollion, by Lepsius (Denhm., ii. 11G b), by Mariette
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THE ROCKS OF THE ISLAND OF SEHÊL WITH SOME OF THE VOTIVE INSCRIPTIONS Drawn by Boudicr, from a photograph taken by Dévèria in 18G4. 430 THE MEMPHITE EMPIRE. streets of the twin cities must have presented at that time the same motleyblending of types and costumes which we might have found some years backin the bazaars of modern Syene. Nubians, negroes of the Soudan, perhapspeople from Southern Arabia, jostled there with Libyans and Egyptians of theDelta. What the princes did to make the sojourn of strangers agreeable,what temples they consecrated to their god Khnûmû and his companions, ingratitude for the good things he had bestowed upon them, we have no meansof knowing up to the present. Elephantine and Syene have preserved for usnothing of their ancient edifices; but the tombs which they have left tell ustheir history. They honeycomb in long lines the sides of the steep hillwhich looks down upon the whole extent of the left bank of the Nile oppositethe narrow channel of the port

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