Taylor found, in an underground chamber of the necropolis at Mugheir, the most primitive kind of vault that has ever been known--that called the corbelled vault.
But the place where this method has been carried out with peculiarly ingenious skill is the necropolis at Mugheir.
Fergusson names it with the mound buildings, as belonging to all Buddhist art; and examples of the Swastika are to be found on Rhodian pottery from the Necropolis of Kamiros, where we find also the key pattern.
See Egyptian fragments in the British Museum, and the specimens of Peruvian textiles; and Reiss and Stübel's "Necropolis of Ancon in Peru.
The whole of its ancient necropolis had been rifled by thieves during the preceding centuries, and the monuments were nearly as much buried by sand as in our own times.
Even the necropolis failed to produce monuments of antiquity.
Almost the first gift received by the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford was the lintel-stone of an ancient Egyptian tomb, brought from Saqqarah, the necropolis of Memphis, by Dr.
Long ago the fellahin discovered among its ruins, and then broke up, a marble bath, such as is used to-day by the Jewish women for the purpose of purification, and in the adjoining necropolis Dr.
The necropolis quarter of Abydos, in which were interred the earlier generations of the Theban Empire, furnishes the most ancient examples of the first system.
Her mummy had been stolen by one of the robber bands which infested the Theban necropolis towards the close of the Twentieth Dynasty.
All the monuments of this type which ornamented the Theban necropolis during the Ramesside period have perished, but contemporary tomb-paintings show many varieties, and the chapel of an Apis which died during the reign of Amenhotep III.
The Mussulman cemetery at Siût perpetuates the like arrangement, and enables us to this day to realise the aspect of the Memphite necropolis towards the close of the ancient empire.
In ancient Rome the Di manes, or as we should say the blessed dead, who reposed in their necropolis outside the walls, were specially commemorated on the dies parentales or days of placating them (placandis Manibus.
Stubel (see Reiss and Stubel's The Necropolis of Anicon in Peru, translated by A.
Elsewhere in the same necropolis numerous examples of a still more elementary form of burial were discovered.
The chamber figured below is taken from the necropolis of Mugheir, formerly "Ur of the Chaldees.
If the Elamite dynasty had its royal necropolis near Susa, in which funerary rites were celebrated down to the moment of the Assyrian conquest, it could hardly have been otherwise with the powerful and pious monarchies of Chaldæa.
PLACE judges from the appearance of the coffins and other objects found that this necropolis dates from the Parthian times (Ninive, vol.
A fragment of Archaic Greek pottery is reported by Rochette from thenecropolis of Cumae, in the campagna of Italy, and is shown in fig.
Had the empress been able to carry out her plans for two or three years more, the whole city and necropolis would have been explored, surveyed, and illustrated, in the most strictly scientific manner.
I believe there is no other in the necropolis of the Via Salaria which has undergone so many changes in the course of centuries.
The necropolis which lined the Via Triumphalis, from Nero's bridge near S.
Bouriant two funerary inscriptions found in thenecropolis dating from the second century A.
As an original supplement he describes some antiquities recently sent to him, which had been found in the necropolis of Sidon, e.
Botti has discovered between Chatbi and Ibrahimieh a Roman necropolis of the first or second century A.
Denis and Carton have excavated the megalithic necropolis of Teboursouk, whose tombs are stone circles, with one or more small dolmens in the centre.
I was informed that some had been found in various places through Greece, but the main source of them--and a very rich source--is the Necropolis at Tanagra.
There are a good many remains, especially of the necropolis of Tegea, to be found scattered through the modern village, chiefly in the walls of new houses.
The lands situated on the left bank of the Nile belonged partly to the king and partly to the god Amon, and any infraction of the law in regard to the necropolis was almost certain to come within the jurisdiction of one or other of them.
Nothing is more indicative of the state to which Egypt was reduced, under the combined influence of the priesthood and the Ramessides, than the thefts and pillaging of which the Theban necropolis was then the daily scene.
In comparison with the elaborate constructions in the Egyptian cities of the dead, the Babylonian necropolis was a shabby affair.
These vaults were constructed of bricks, and an extended series of them gave to the necropolis the appearance of little houses, suggestive of primitive mud huts.
He stood a long time gazing at the vast, lonelynecropolis among the mountains.
She was beside him; he gazed into her eyes, even as now he gazed across to the dark necropolis among the Theban hills.
He had an assignation in the Necropolis at midnight--it would seem to have begun more pleasantly than it ended?
The peaceful silence of the Necropolis had indeed been disturbed, but the spirits of the departed had no share in the horrors which had been transacted this night in the desert, among the monuments and rocktombs.
Throughout the whole period Memphis was the central point of the kingdom, and its necropolis almost the only source of our instruction.
They buried the great Pharaoh in a modest place he had prepared for himself in the necropolis of Drah-abu’l-Neggah.
There is not, perhaps, in all the world, a spectacle more impressive than the sight of the ancient necropolis of kings.
Excavations were made in January, 1817, in the cemetery of the Valois, and the bones thus discovered were transferred to the necropolis of the kings.
He intended spending three or four days in examining the ruins of the ancient necropolis of Memphis; but he was suddenly obliged to alter his plan.
The recollection of the magnificent Necropolis of Cairo frequently recurred to.
The valley of Biban el Molûk contains the tombs of kings only: the necropolis of the queens is situated farther away, in another mountain gorge.
A maker of musical instruments could certainly make a harp, a lyre, or a sistrum from the pattern of those upon which are playing the female musicians at the funeral repast represented in one of the tombs of the necropolis of Thebes.
The necropolis would have invaded the city, and the stark mummies in their bandages would have stood up by the wall of the hearth.
Alban necropolis and the coeval tombs of the necropolis recently discovered in the Forum at Rome.
In this last necropolis cremation seems slightly to precede inhumation in date.
It is asserted, too, that some of the earliest tombs of the necropolis of Alba Longa (q.
The modern potters of the East Mesa never glaze their pottery, and no fragment of glazed ware was obtained from the necropolis of Sikyatki.
One of the most interesting objects in Sikyatki food basins from the necropolis was a comparatively well preserved rattle of a rattlesnake.
A Roman necropolis has been found on the site of the artillery barracks.
The ancient Necropolis is on the east side of the Acropolis, behind the village: the remains of several tombs have been uncovered by the rains.
Of the singular suburb styled the Necropolis or "city of the dead," nothing remains.
The fact that they are buried in the necropolis of Abydos apparently justifies the opinion of the Egyptian chroniclers that they were natives of Thinis.
The profile copied from a Theban mummy taken at hazard from a necropolis of the XVIIIth dynasty, and compared with the likeness of a modern Luxor peasant, would almost pass for a family portrait.
There was a necropolis of considerable extent there, which furnishes the Luxor dealers with antiquities, many of which belong to the first Theban empire.
Ra-qrirît, the door of the stone, was the name which the people of Siût gave to their necropolis and to the infernal domain of their god.
A Ptolemaic necropolis of sacred rams was discovered by Mariette at Tmai el-Amdid, in the ruins of Thmûis, and some of their sarcophagi are now in the Gîzeh Museum.
Its manufactures of linen are mentioned by Strabo; the majority of the beautiful Coptic woven fabrics and embroideries which have been brought to Europe lately, come from the necropolis of the Arab period at Apû.
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