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Title: The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916
Subjects: History, Ancient Egypt -- History Syria -- History and antiquities Assyria -- History and antiquities
Publisher: London : S.P.C.K.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Egypt (Viuey,Le Tombeau de Rekhmard, in the M£m. de la Mission du Caire, vol. v. pi. vii.). For tliis form of covering, see, in addiliou to the figure on the right of the page, CuajipollioX,Mon. de IJiijijple, pi. xii.; Koselli.ni, Mon. Storici, Ixvii., Ixxx.; Lepsius, Denlim., iii. 145 c. Drawn \>y Faucher-Gudin, from Champollion, Mon. de IKyijiAe, pi. xxxvi. 3; Bosellini, Mon.Storici, pi. clx., No. 3. * See the naked children in Champollion, Mon. de rjJgypie, etc., pi. xii.; Eosellini, Mon. Storici,Ixviii., ixxx.; Vihev, Le Tomheuu de Itelihmard, in tlie M^m. de la Mission du Caire, vol. v. pi. viii.,and Tombeau dAinenemlieb, p. 244. Drawn by FaucUer-Gudin, from the original in the Louvre: cf. Champollion, Mon. de VLCgypte,pi. clxix. 1; and Irisse dAvexxes, Hist, de IArt Etjijptien. See the ancient Asiatic costume, Dawn of Civilization, p. 718, et acq., and the statues of Gudeafurnisliiug tlic prototype, ibid., 611, GI3. An example of the fashion of leaving the shoidder baro is
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YOUNOSYltlAN GIKL.^ 154 SYRIA AT THE BEGINNING OF THE EGYPTIAN CONQUEST. From all that we can gather, in short, from the silence as well as from themisunderstandings of the Egyptian chroniclers, Syria stands before us as afruitful and civilized country, of which one might be thankful to be a native,in spite of coutiuual wars and frequent revolutions. The religion of the Syrians was subject to the same influences as theircustoms; we are, as yet, far from being able to draw a complete picture oftheir theology, but such knowledge as we do possess recalls the same namesand the same elements as are found in the religious systems of Chald;\3a.^ Themyths, it is true, are still vague and misty, at least to our modern ideas; thegeneral characteristics of the principal divinities alone stand out, and seemfairly well defined. As with the other Semitic races, the deity in a generalsense, the primordial type of the godhead, was called EI or Ih), and hisfeminine counterpart Bat, but we find compara

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