A History of Egypt Volume 5 download torrent
A History of Egypt Volume 5 download torrent
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Author: William Matthew Flinders Petrie
Page Count: 78 pages
Published Date: 01 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781231222287
File Name: A.History.of.Egypt.Volume.5.pdf
Download Link: A History of Egypt Volume 5
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ...were not unmindful of the pleasures of their fellows. It runs as follows: --"To Aurelius Theon, keeper of the training-school, from Aurelius Asclepiades, son of Philadelphus, president of the council of the village of Bacchias. I desire to hire from you Tisais the dancing girl and another, to dance for us in the above village for (fifteen?) days from the i3th Phaophi by the old calendar. You shall receive as pay thirty-six drachmae a day, and for the whole period three artabai of wheat, and fifteen couples of loaves; also three donkeys to fetch them and take them back. "(542) v--ii 7. Three brief letters from Oxyrhynchos are interesting, as showing the existence of " society " in the town. Apparently the fashionable hour for dinner-parties was the ninth, which would be early in the afternoon; and such dinner-parties could be held in one of the temples; while the festivals of the gods furnished opportunities for social displays. The invitations are--"Chaeremon requests your company at dinner, at the table of the lord Serapis in the Serapaeum, to-morrow, the 1sth, at 9 o'clock."(M8) "Herais requests your company at dinner, in celebration of the marriage of her children, at her house tomorrow, the 5th, at 9 o'clock."(544) "Greeting, my dear Serenia, from Petosiris. Be sure, dear, to come up on the zoth for the birthday festival of the god, and let me know whether you are coming by boat or by donkey, in order that we may send for you accordingly. Take care not to forget. I pray for your continued health." (54S) 8. There is, however, comparatively little evidence of luxury to be found either in the records of the life of Roman Egypt preserved in the" papyri, or in the objects discovered in the excavation of R...
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A History of Egypt Volume 5 by William Matthew Flinders Petrie
Author: William Matthew Flinders Petrie
Page Count: 78 pages
Published Date: 01 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781231222287
File Name: A.History.of.Egypt.Volume.5.pdf
Download Link: A History of Egypt Volume 5
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ...were not unmindful of the pleasures of their fellows. It runs as follows: --"To Aurelius Theon, keeper of the training-school, from Aurelius Asclepiades, son of Philadelphus, president of the council of the village of Bacchias. I desire to hire from you Tisais the dancing girl and another, to dance for us in the above village for (fifteen?) days from the i3th Phaophi by the old calendar. You shall receive as pay thirty-six drachmae a day, and for the whole period three artabai of wheat, and fifteen couples of loaves; also three donkeys to fetch them and take them back. "(542) v--ii 7. Three brief letters from Oxyrhynchos are interesting, as showing the existence of " society " in the town. Apparently the fashionable hour for dinner-parties was the ninth, which would be early in the afternoon; and such dinner-parties could be held in one of the temples; while the festivals of the gods furnished opportunities for social displays. The invitations are--"Chaeremon requests your company at dinner, at the table of the lord Serapis in the Serapaeum, to-morrow, the 1sth, at 9 o'clock."(M8) "Herais requests your company at dinner, in celebration of the marriage of her children, at her house tomorrow, the 5th, at 9 o'clock."(544) "Greeting, my dear Serenia, from Petosiris. Be sure, dear, to come up on the zoth for the birthday festival of the god, and let me know whether you are coming by boat or by donkey, in order that we may send for you accordingly. Take care not to forget. I pray for your continued health." (54S) 8. There is, however, comparatively little evidence of luxury to be found either in the records of the life of Roman Egypt preserved in the" papyri, or in the objects discovered in the excavation of R...
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