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Title: By Nile and Tigris : a narrative of Journeys in Egypt and Mesopotamia on behalf of the British Museum between the years 1886 and 1913
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir, 1857-1934
Subjects: Egypt -- Antiquities Egypt -- Description and travel Iraq -- Description and travel Iraq -- Antiquities
Publisher: London : Murray
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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they detested the officials of the Service of Antiquities,for they were convinced that their one object was toget hold of their antiquities, not to preserve in the Museumin Cairo, but to sell on their own behalf. They were allmost anxious to do business with the British Museum,but they were ready to deal with anyone who was not aservant of the Egyptian Government. It must not beimagined that they valued the antiquities of theircountry from an intellectual point of view, or that theywanted them to go to a place where they knew they wouldbe carefully preserved : they certainly did not in 1887,and I doubt if they do so even now. They were, andstill are, fully aware of the value of antiquities from apecuniary point of view, or as commercial assets ; butthe true Muslim regards them as accursed things, and asthe works of unbelievers, who, because of their sinsand wickednesses, were overthrown by God ; and theman who digs them up is not always held to be free fromsin. To face p. 115, vol. i.
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Waxen Book with Seven Tablets. 115 Among the objects I secured at Luxor were a gildedbronze figure of Set (Typhon), the god of Evil/ thefirst figure of the god ever found, and a circular ivoryobject, which was made for Seneb, a lady who flourishedunder the XVIIIth dynasty. On the latter were cutin outline figures of the double lion-headed Earth-god,Aker, and of many Typhonic deities and animals, andfabulous monsters^e.g., the winged, hawk-headedleopard, with a human head growing out of his back.This object is a kind of amulet, and was the first of itskind acquired by the British Museum.^ During the lastfew days of my stay at Luxor the natives of Kus discovereda rich tomb of the Roman period, and the principal con-tents were shown to me as a possible buyer on the eveningof my departure—in fact, just as the steamer was aboutto leave. These included : (i) a very remarkable waxenbook, with seven tablets and covers, and with inscrip-tions in, to me at least, an unknown character ; (2) aw

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