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SISTERS (A STORY OF ANCIENT EGYPT)
SISTERS (A STORY OF ANCIENT EGYPT)
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SISTERS……………TWO SISTERS….SERVED THE GOD SERAPIS….AS POURERS OF LIBATIONS. FOLLOW THEIR STORY BY A MASTER STORY TELLER WHO UNDERSTANDS THE CULTURE OF ANCIENT EGYPT. 285 PAGES IN PRINT!
Ebers states…“I have been so fortunate as to visit this spot and to search through every part of the ruins and the petitions I speak of have been familiar to me for years. So I drew a vivid picture of the Serapeum under Ptolemy Philometor. The outlines of the story became clear and firm and began to acquired color. It is this picture which I have endeavored to set before the reader, so far as words admit, in the following pages.”
• This volume includes a “Detailed Biography” of our author, Georg Ebers.
By a marvelous combination of circumstances a number of fragments of the Royal Archives of Memphis have been preserved from destruction with the rest, containing petitions written on papyrus in the Greek language; these were composed by a recluse of Macedonian birth, living in the Serapeum, in behalf of two sisters, twins, who served the god as "Pourers out of the libations."
I did not indeed select for my hero the recluse, nor for my heroines the twins who are spoken of in the petitions, but others who might have lived at a somewhat earlier date under similar conditions; for it is proved by the papyrus that it was not once only and by accident that twins were engaged in serving in the temple of Serapis, but that, on the contrary, pair after pair of sisters succeeded each other in the office of pouring out libations.
I have not invested Klea and Irene with this function, but have simply placed them as wards of the Serapeum and growing up within its precincts. I selected this alternative partly because the existing sources of knowledge give us very insufficient information as to the duties that might have been required of the twins, partly for other reasons arising out of the plan of my narrative.
Klea and Irene are purely imaginary personages, but on the other hand I have endeavored, by working from tolerably ample sources, to give a faithful picture of the historical physiognomy of the period in which they live and move!
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Ebers states…“I have been so fortunate as to visit this spot and to search through every part of the ruins and the petitions I speak of have been familiar to me for years. So I drew a vivid picture of the Serapeum under Ptolemy Philometor. The outlines of the story became clear and firm and began to acquired color. It is this picture which I have endeavored to set before the reader, so far as words admit, in the following pages.”
• This volume includes a “Detailed Biography” of our author, Georg Ebers.
By a marvelous combination of circumstances a number of fragments of the Royal Archives of Memphis have been preserved from destruction with the rest, containing petitions written on papyrus in the Greek language; these were composed by a recluse of Macedonian birth, living in the Serapeum, in behalf of two sisters, twins, who served the god as "Pourers out of the libations."
I did not indeed select for my hero the recluse, nor for my heroines the twins who are spoken of in the petitions, but others who might have lived at a somewhat earlier date under similar conditions; for it is proved by the papyrus that it was not once only and by accident that twins were engaged in serving in the temple of Serapis, but that, on the contrary, pair after pair of sisters succeeded each other in the office of pouring out libations.
I have not invested Klea and Irene with this function, but have simply placed them as wards of the Serapeum and growing up within its precincts. I selected this alternative partly because the existing sources of knowledge give us very insufficient information as to the duties that might have been required of the twins, partly for other reasons arising out of the plan of my narrative.
Klea and Irene are purely imaginary personages, but on the other hand I have endeavored, by working from tolerably ample sources, to give a faithful picture of the historical physiognomy of the period in which they live and move!
Looking for another good book? Just enter the name "TLC BOOKS, Edited" at the search box and you will be taken to our main page, where you will be able to peruse all our titles…many are Christian and Wholesome novels.
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