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Title: A history of art in ancient Egypt
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Perrot, Georges, 1832-1914 Chipiez, Charles, 1835-1901 Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918
Subjects: Art -- Egypt History Egypt -- Antiquities
Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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h sovereign. The deceased Pharaohs thusconstituted a series of pfods to whom the rei^nino- sovereign wouldof course address himself when he had anything to ask ; hence the 1 Maspero, Ilistoire ancie/ine, p. 58. This affiliation of the king to the god wasmore than a figure of speech. In an inscription which is reproduced both atIpsamboul and at Medinet-Abou, Ptah is made to speak in the following terms ofRameses II. and Rameses III. respectively: I am thy father, as a god I havebegotten thee j all thy members are divine ; when I approached thy royal mother Itook upon me the form of the sacred ram of IMendes (line 3rd). This curioustext has lately been interpreted by E. i>i:xv\\\e (Society of Biblical Arc/iaoIogy,\o\. vii.pp. 119-138). The monarchy of the Incas was founded upon an almost identicalbelief 2 See the account of the visit to Heliopolis of the conquering Ethiopian, Piankhi-Mer-Amen; we shall quote the text of tliis famous inscription in our chapter uponthe Egyptian temple.
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o CJ 3 ,J0 mi ^ C/1 The Constitution of Egyptian Society, 25 monuments upon which we find living Pharaohs offering worshipto their predecessors.^ The prestige which such a theory of royalty w^as calculated togive to the Egyptian kings may easily be imagined. Theyobtained more than respect; they were the objects of adoration, ofidolatry. Brought up from infancy in this religious veneration, towhich their hereditary qualities also inclined them, generationsucceeded generation among the Egyptians, without any attemptto rebel against the royal authority or even to dispute it. AncientEgypt, like its modern descendant, was now and then the scene ofmilitary revolts. These were generally provoked by the presenceof foreign mercenaries, sometimes by their want of discipline andlicence, sometimes by the jealousy which they inspired in thenative soldiery ; but never,from the time of Menesto that of Tewfik-Pacha,has the civil population,whether of the town orof the fields, shown anydesire to obtai

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