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Pàgina 4 - In passing this way, we observed in the sides of the rock above us, several tables of figures carved, which seemed to promise something of antiquity ; to be satisfied of which, some of us clambered up to the place, and found there some signs as if the old way had gone in that region before Antoninus cut the other more convenient passage a little lower. In several places hereabouts, we saw strange antique figures of men, carved in the natural rock, in mezzo-relievo, and in bigness equal to the life....
Pàgina 4 - ... satisfied of which, some of us clambered up to the place, and found there some signs as if the old way had gone in that region before Antoninus cut the other more convenient passage a little lower. In several places hereabouts, we saw strange antique figures of men, carved in the natural rock, in mezzo- relievo, and in bigness equal to the life. Close by each figure was a large table planed in the side of the rock, and bordered round with mouldings.
Pàgina 5 - Greeks, so as to accord with their own euphonic language — this word, Sesostris — could not be expected to be met in any Egyptian inscription. The ascertainment on the present tablet, of the hieroglyph of Ramses the Second, is therefore extremely interesting, both in itself, and as a luminous beacon in investigating the relative antiquity of those of the Phoenician monuments which contain, or have contained, the arrow-head, or cunieform, inscriptions.
Pàgina 4 - Being passed the river, you immediately begin to ascend the mountain, or rather great rock, on the other side. To accommodate the passage you have a path of above two yards' breadth cut along its side, at a great height above the water, being the work of the emperor Antoninus ; for the promontory allowing no passage between it and the sea, at bottom, that emperor undertook, with incredible labour, to open this way above, the memory of which good work is perpetuated by an inscription...
Pàgina 5 - ... equal to the life. Close by each figure was a large table planed in the side of the rock, and bordered round with mouldings. Both the effigies and the tables appeared to have been anciently inscribed all over ; but the characters are now so defaced, that nothing but the footsteps of them were visible ; only there was one of the figures that had both its lineaments and its inscriptions entire.
Pàgina 10 - Across his breast, from shoulder to shoulder, there is this inscription in the sacred characters of Egypt. " I conquered this country by the force of my arms.
Pàgina 3 - The rocks that sustain the road south of the river, preserve the remains of ten monuments of great interest, and of various epochae. The most ancient, but unfortunately the most corroded, are three Egyptian tablets : on them may be...
Pàgina 8 - Sethosis, Sesoosis, or Sesostris, as being thirteen years of age, at the era of the expulsion of the lepers from Egypt, which expulsion is by some authors supposed to be the Egyptian account of the Hebrew exodus; and Count Volney imagines that the great conqueror may have passed and spared the Jews, out of contempt for their recent origin, when he set forth on his Phoenician and Ionian expedition...
Pàgina 20 - Al-Debardn is literally (and in the Arabic language) " the LEADING star," which I beg of them not to forget, because it denotes commencement. To lead was to commence and head (like the general of an army) the annual march of the host of heaven; for in that warlike and semi-barbarous age, military metaphors and modes of expression were preferred to all others, and therefore...
Pàgina 20 - Ion-ton of Babylon : and even yet, this love of the phraseology of war, is scarcely gone out of fashion, so fond are we, in this enlightened age, as it calls itself, of the captains or leaders of the hosts of earth. We may here add, that the same astronomical priests who named the Pleiades, Al-Thuriaya, or stars of abundance, named the Alpha of Taurus, Al-Debar&n, or the leader of the celestial host of Saboath, or Sabaoth, literally meaning, sacred signs.