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Title: Egypt and the Sûdân; handbook for travellers
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
Subjects: Egypt -- Guidebooks Sudan -- Guidebooks
Publisher: Leipzig : K. Baedeker New York, C. Scribner's sons (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Dwarfs with ape and dogs. Captured fish. The **North Side of the tomb-chamber (Plan, p. 156) is adornedwith scenes representing life in the marshes of the Delta. To theleft (beginning at the top) : Ti superintending fishing and bird- 11* SAKKARA. Mastaba
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Peasant women vrith offerings. ofTi. SAKKAKA. l.Koulc. 159 snaring (two rows); fisherman shaking flsli from a kind of wickerbow-net into a basket; two men seated at a small table cutting upfish; below, cattle pasturing; a cow is represented calving, anotheris being milked, wliilc an overseer leans on his staff close by and aherdsman grasping a calf by the legs prevents it running to itsmother; to the left, calves tethered to pegs in the ground try to tearthemselves free, others are browsing; to the right, herdsmen insmall papyrus boats drive a herd of cattle across a river in whichlurk two crocodiles; to the left are two dwarfs with their masterspet ape and a leash of greyhounds. In the centre: Ti sailing through the marshes in a boat ofpapyrus. In front of him is a second boat, whose crew is engagedin hunting hippopotami with harpoons, near which a hippopotamusbites a crocodile. In a smaller boat behind is a man catching atish. In the surrounding papyrus-thicket various birds are sit

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