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

  • Flinders Petrie
Date:
1923
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    Law, knowledge of, 87 scheme proposed by de¬ fendant, 90 trials by, 31, 37 Laws now lost, 77 Lead, 150 Leases of land, 80 Leather work, 141 Legitimacy of all children, 113 Levy of labour, 22 Libations to gods, 104 Lighting of buildings, 176 Linen begun, 127 Lion badge of valour, 199 Literary works in school copies, 124 Lock, forms of, 103 Roman, 103 Luxury, 154 Mace for fighting, 197 Maneros, song of, 106 Manishtusu values in corn and silver, 5 Mansions, 172, 173 Manslaughter punished by banishment, 84 Marriage contracts, 114-7 gifts, 114-7 growth of, 73, 94 no religious cere¬ mony, 117 of near kin, 109 Marshal, 18 Masons, 26 Mat spreader, 18 Matting, 143, 178 Maxims, 69-72 Means of subsistence declared annually, 78 Measures, 155 Mechanics, 20 Messenger of the king, 41, 42 Metals used, 149 Middle class not early, 20 rise of, 21 Military land, 13 Minerals used, 149 Mines State property, 62 Mining, 189 Mitre jointing, 145 Monarchy constant, 31 Monogamy of priests, 113 Moral code for teaching, 66 Morality of lower classes, 94 Mozay guards, 196 Mummifying business, 29 Mummy carried round at feast, 106 Museum of Alexandria, 126 Mykenae, trade with, 165 Nabut stick, 198 Nature festival, decay of, 107 Naukratis, 50, 166, 192 Nazir el Qism, 39, 44 Negative confession, 65 Network of cut leather, 142 Night guard, chief of, 19, 45 Nile reported monthly, 58 taxes regulated by, 57 traffic taxed, 62 traffic under vezier, 40 Nilometers, 132, 184 Nomarch, 43 deposition of, 83 Nome, director of, 19 Nomes, taxes of, 53 vary in number, 46 Nubia, governor of, 40 Nubian trade, 157 Nurse, 18 Nursery of palace, 125 Oases, artesian wells in, 187 Obeisance, 104 Obelisks transported, 168 Obsidian, 164 Official career, 125 life, growth of, 8 Oil from plants, 137 tax, 59 Ointment on head, 106 Olive, 137 Oppression by officials, 82 of poor, 16 Oracles for decisions, 88 Organisation of army, 194 Osiris group introduced, 3
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