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Title: The Century illustrated monthly magazine
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Nicolay, John G. (John George), 1832-1901 Hay, John, 1838-1905 Ingraham, Prentiss, 1843-1904
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Booth, John Wilkes, 1838-1865
Publisher: New York : The Century Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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offerings are of variouskinds, as live geese, cranes, and fishes. Thereare long processions of priests continued from 1 /. e., October 8 of our reckoning. 2 The priestesses of Amen were designated as wivesof the god. rying water-jars, said to be fashioned of elec-trum, others bearing sheaves of flowers, othersgrasping the ankh, or emblem of life, theypace in single file, as in a kind of Panathenaicprocession. Some are clapping their hands tothe measure of a chant which they are singing.Foremost among them are Queen Karoamaand the royal daughters, three of whomare seen standing behind their mother. Theirnames, here known for the first time, are Tasbakheper, Karoama, and Armer. The queen,exercising her prerogative as hereditary high-priestess of Amen, assists the king in makingofferings; but he is more frequently accom-panied by Bast herself. Sometimes he standsin a shrine, as if he were a god, wearing thedouble crown and grasping the flail and crook. BUBASTIS: AX HISTORICAL STUDY. 347
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COLOSSAL ARCHITRAVE ENGRAVED WITH A DEDICATION TO SET. seum of Fine Arts at Bos-ton. Another, sculpturedwith full-length portraitsof Osorkon II. and QueenKaroama, has been pre-sented to the British Mu-seum. These are the onlytwo blocks from the Fes-tival Hall which have asyet been removed from thescene of the excavations. As a contribution to thehistory of an obscure dy-Most curious of all are certain tableaux rep- nasty, the discovery of the Festival Hall is oneresenting what might be taken for scenes from of the most important results of the work atsome kind of religious drama, or mystery, Tell Basta. It shows Osorkon II. to haveperformed by priests wearing costumes and commanded large resources, and—if we maybearing titles elsewhere unknown. Some per- literally accept some of the speeches put intoform feats of posturing; some hold scrolls of the mouth of Amen — to have made his powerpapyrus, and appear to be in the act of de- respected beyond the limits of the Egyptianclaiming;

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