Social life in ancient Egypt / by W.M. Flinders Petrie.

  • Flinders Petrie
Date:
1923
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Credit: Social life in ancient Egypt / by W.M. Flinders Petrie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    land, they received a daily allowance of five pounds of bread, two pounds of meat, and four draughts of wine. Under the Ptolemies there was a great influx of Macedonians and other Greeks ; Philadelphos had 4,000 Keltic mercenaries ; and in 213 b.c., 4,000 Thracians and Galatians were enlisted from settlers, and 2,000 more were imported. In the burials of Alexandrians, thirty-nine ethnic names comprise six Thessalians, eight other Europeans, four Islanders, three Africans, eight Asiatic Greeks, and ten Galati and Kelts. Under Rome, the two legions, Cyrenians and Galatians, continued to be recruited in the country, and outsiders were not brought in till Valens removed some Egyptian soldiery and sent Goths in their place. Arabs were accepted as auxiliaries, Palmyrene archers in the third century, and later appear Thamud Arabs, Rhaetians, Epirotes, and Pannonians. The arms of the prehistoric time were the disc mace at first, and the pear mace later, which continued to be the official weapon of the king to the very last. The flint dagger and lance for fighting, and forked lance for hunting, were usual. The earliest metal weapon known is the flat, wide, triangular blade, usual in Italy ; rather later is the narrow blade with a deep mid-rib, as in Cyprus ; both of these are before the decadence
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