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Here his researches upon the spectra of the metals had won him his fellowship in the Royal Society; but again he played the coquette with his subject, and after a year's absence from the laboratory he joined the Oriental Society, and delivered a paper on the Hieroglyphic and Demotic inscriptions of El Kab, thus giving a crowning example both of the versatility and of the inconstancy of his talents.
"Come, Tan Gama," he cried, "we are to take the Thark before Kab Kadja. Bring another with you." The warrior addressed arose and, beckoning to a fellow squatting near, the three turned and left the apartment. If I could but follow them the chance might come to free Tars Tarkas at once. At least I would learn the location of his prison.
If we attribute the earlier part to the opening of the XVIIIth Dynasty the age of the pastoral scenes of the tombs of El Kab, which are the latest instances of such sculptures in Egypt we shall probably be nearest to the truth. The description of Bata is one of the most beautiful character-drawings in the past.
The mouths of the defiles which led into the desert needed to be closed against the Bedawîn; while the great feudal nobles fortified their houses, their towns, and the villages upon their domains which commanded either the mountain passes or the narrow parts of the river, against their king or their neighbours. The oldest fortresses are those of Abydos, El Kab, and Semneh.
At Ombos, at Edfû, at Denderah, the whole city nestled inside the precincts of the divine dwelling. At El Kab, where the temple temenos formed a separate enclosure within the boundary of the city walls, it served as a sort of donjon, or keep, in which the garrison could seek a last refuge.
To that temple they carried their dead and the sick. They called it Kabul, the working hand, and made there great offerings.” Father Lizana says the same: so we have two witnesses to the fact. Kab, in Maya means hand; and Bul is to play at hazard.
Princess Nesikhonsû had beside her, in the vault at Deir el Baharî, some glass goblets of similar work. The national glass works were therefore in full operation during the time of the great Theban dynasties. Huge piles of scoriae mixed with slag yet mark the spot where their furnaces were stationed at Tell el Amarna, the Ramesseum, at El Kab, and at the Tell of Eshmûneyn.
In other temples and pyramids and among the stones of the walls of Dashur and El Kab studied by Unger, different species and varieties of cereals were discovered in large quantities, that showed their identity with the present prevailing cultivated races of Egypt. The inhabitants of the lake-dwellings in Switzerland possessed some varieties of cereals, which have entirely disappeared.
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