List of Illustrations. xiii FIG. PAGE 71, 72. Elements of the portico 108 73. Egyptian construction 109 74. Element of an off-set arch iii 75. Arrangement of the courses in an off-set arch iii 76. Off-set semicircular arch iii 77. Voussoir 112 78. Arrangement of voussoirs 112 79. Semicircular vault 112 80. Granaries, from a bas-relief . . " 113 81. Modern pigeon house, Thebes 114 82. Elements of wooden construction 116 83. Wooden building (first system) 117 84. Wooden building (second system) 118 85. Seti I. striking prisoners of war with his mace 124 86. Stele of the eleventh dynasty 131 87. Mummy case from the eighteenth dynasty 137 88. Man and his wife in the style of the fifth dynasty 138 89. Sekhem-ka, his wife Ata, and his son Khnem, in the style of the fifth dynasty 139 90. Stele of Nefer-oun 140 91. Preparation of the victims and arrival of funeral gifts 141 92. Table for offerings 144 93. Another form of the table for offerings 144 94. Labourers heaping up ears of corn 146 95. 96. Sepulchral statuettes 147 97. Vignette from a i?////a/ upon papyrus 149 98. Arrival in Egypt of a company of Asiatic emigrants 152, 153 99. The tomb of Ti ; women, representing the lands of the deceased, carrying the funeral gifts 154 100. Lid of the cot^n of Entef 158 loi, 102. Scarabs 159 103, 104. Funerary amulets 159 105. Pillow 160 106. Actual condition of a Mastaba. The Tomb of Sabou 167 107. Three mastabas at Gizeh 168 108. Restoration of part of the Necropolis of Gizeh 169 109. The Mastabat-el-Faraoun 170 no. Entrance to a Mastaba at Sakkarah 171 111. Lintel of the tomb of Teta 172 112. Plan of the tomb of Ti 174 113. 114. Mastaba at Sakkarah 174 115. AVestern wall in the chamber of the tomb of Ptah-Hotep 175 116. Plan of a Mastaba with four serdabs 178 117. Longitudinal section of the same Mastaba 178 118. Transverse section through the chamber 179 119. Transverse section through the serdabs 179 120. Figures in high relief, from a Mastaba at Gizeh 180
