{"product_id":"2940015716894","title":"History of Egypt, Chald\u0026aelig;a, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 6 (of 12)","description":"_THE CLOSE OF THE THEBAN EMPIRE--(continued)_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_RAMSES III.: MANNERS AND CUSTOMS--POPULATION--THE PREDOMINANCE OF AMON\u003cbr\u003eAND HIS HIGH PRIESTS._\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_The Theban necropolis: mummies--The funeral of a rich Theban: the\u003cbr\u003eprocession of the offerings and the funerary furniture, the crossing\u003cbr\u003eof the Nile, the tomb, the farewell to the dead, the sacrifice, the\u003cbr\u003ecoffins, the repast of the dead, the song of the Harper--The common\u003cbr\u003editch--The living inhabitants of the necropolis: draughtsmen, sculptors,\u003cbr\u003epainters--The bas-reliefs of the temples and the tombs, wooden\u003cbr\u003estatuettes, the smelting of metals, bronze--The religions of the\u003cbr\u003enecropolis: the immorality and want of discipline among the people:\u003cbr\u003eworkmen s strikes._\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_Amon and the beliefs concerning him: his kingdom over the living and\u003cbr\u003ethe dead, the soul's destiny according to the teaching of Amon--Khonsû\u003cbr\u003eand his temple; the temple of Amon at Karnak, its revenue, its\u003cbr\u003epriesthood--The growing influence of the high priests of Amon under\u003cbr\u003ethe sons of Ramses III.: Hamsesnaklûti, Amenôthes; the violation of the\u003cbr\u003eroyal burying-places--Hrihor and the last of the Ramses, Smendês and the\u003cbr\u003eaccession to power of the XXIst dynasty: the division of Egypt into two\u003cbr\u003eStates--The priest-kings of Amon masters of Thebes under the suzerainty\u003cbr\u003eof the Tanite Pharaohs--The close of the Theban empire._\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: 003.jpg Page Image]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I--THE CLOSE OF THE THEBAN EMPIRE--(continued)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_Ramses III.: Manners and Customs--Population--The predominance of Amon\u003cbr\u003eand his high priests._\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOpposite the Thebes of the living, Khafîtnîbûs, the Thebes of the dead,\u003cbr\u003ehad gone on increasing in a remarkably rapid manner. It continued to\u003cbr\u003eextend in the south-western direction from the heroic period of\u003cbr\u003ethe XVIIIth dynasty onwards, and all the eminence and valleys were\u003cbr\u003egradually appropriated one after the other for burying-places. At the\u003cbr\u003etime of which I am speaking, this region formed an actual town, or\u003cbr\u003erather a chain of villages, each of which was grouped round some\u003cbr\u003ebuilding constructed by one or other of the Pharaohs as a funerary\u003cbr\u003echapel. Towards the north, opposite Karnak, they clustered at\u003cbr\u003eDrah-abu'l-Neggah around pyramids of the first Theban monarchs, at\u003cbr\u003eQurneh around the mausolæ of Ramses I. and Seti I., and at Sheikh\u003cbr\u003eAbd el-Qurneh they lay near the Amenopheum and the Pamonkaniqîmît,\u003cbr\u003eor Ramesseum built by Ramses II. Towards the south they diminished\u003cbr\u003ein number, tombs and monuments becoming fewer and appearing at wider\u003cbr\u003eintervals; the Migdol of Ramses III. formed an isolated suburb, that of\u003cbr\u003eAzamît, at Medinet-Habu; the chapel of Isis, constructed by Amenôthes,\u003cbr\u003eson of Hapû, formed a rallying-point for the huts of the hamlet of\u003cbr\u003eKarka;* and in the far distance, in a wild gorge at the extreme limit\u003cbr\u003eof human habitations, the queens of the Ramesside line slept their last\u003cbr\u003esleep.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     * The village of Karka or Kaka was identified by Brugsch\u003cbr\u003e     with the hamlet of Deîr el-Medineh: the founder of the\u003cbr\u003e     temple was none other than Amenôthes, who was minister under\u003cbr\u003e     Amenôthes III.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47074358690032,"sku":"2940015716894","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015716894","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}