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Title: The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916
Subjects: Civilization
Publisher: London : S.P.C.K.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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crawling posture towards the master, the fifth has just risen and holds himself in astooping attitude, while an usher introduces him and transmits to him an order to send in his accounts. 3 It has been published in Lepsius, Derikm., ii. 4-7. Its texts have been analysed in a more orless summary fashion by E. de Bougé, Recherches sur les monuments, pp. 39,40 ; by Birch, in Bunsen,Egypts Place, vol. v. pp. 723, 724; by Pierbet, Explication des Monuments de VEgypte, pp. 9-11 ; byErman, Mgypten, pp. 126-128 ; they have been translated and commented on by Maspero, LaCarrière administrative de deux hauts fonctionnaires égyptiens, in the Etudes Égyptiennes, vol. ii.pp. 113-272. It is from this last source that I have borrowed, in a condensed form, the principalfeatures in the biography of Amten. Lepsius, Denkm., ii. 5, 1. 1 ; cf. Maspero, Études Égyptiennes, vol. ii. p. 120, et seq. THE CAREER OF AMTEN. 291 father obtained for him, in his native Nome, the post of chief scribe attached
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THE FUNERAL STELE OF THE TOMB OF AMTEN.1 to one of the localities which belonged to the Administration of Provisions.On behalf of the Pharaoh, the young man received, registered, and distributed 1 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from Lepsius, Denlcm., ii. 3. Amten is portrayed standing uprightin the recess and on the doorposts of the false door, as well as on the wall; to right and left liebears a mace and a long staff in his hands ; on the right a slave serves the funeral banquet ; on theleft a jerboa, a hare, a porcupine, a weasel, and another quadruped of undecided shape represent the 292 THE POLITICAL CONSTITUTION OF EGYPT. the meat, cakes, fruits, and fresh vegetables which constituted the taxes, all onhis own responsibility, except that he had to give an account of them to the Director of the Storehouse who was nearest to hi in. We are not told howlong he remained in this occupation ; we see merely that he was raised suc-cessively to posts of an analogous kind, but of increasing importa

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