The Legacy Of Egypt

Index

Ma'at, priests of, 378.

Macarius the Great, 322.

Maccabees, book of, 315.

Macedon, 272.

madder colour for painting, 156.

Madinah, 103.

madrasa, the, 364-5.

magic, 73,76,115,184-7, 280-1,386-8.

magicians' handbooks, 280.

Mahrnud Gamal ed Din Hamdi EfTendi,

maize, 381. [369 n. I.

malachite, 123, 136, 155.

malik (king), 349.

Maliki rites, 350-1.

mallet, 138, 143, pi. 22.

Mamluks, al-Maqrizi's history of, 358;

decorative art of, 367; engraving,

366; Bahri (Turkish), 349, 364-5;

Circassian Burji, 349, 365.
al-Mammati, historian, 357.
man running and looking backwards,

see Orion; with outstretched arms,

see Cygnus.

man-power, used in building, 148.
Manchester papyrus of Deuteronomy,
mandata principis, 274. [253*

Manetho, n n. i, 13, 14, 17, 85, 220.
Manfaluti, writer, 356.
manganese compounds, for glass

colouring, 134.
Manichees, 273.
manufactures, licences for, 294.
manuscripts, illuminated, 252.
map, early, pi. 33.
al-Maqrizi, historian, 357-9.
Mar Antuni, monastery, 319.
marble-like limestone, 143.
1 Marduk, god, 31.
Mareshah, battle of, 227.
Mari, city, 26, 29.
al-Maridani, mosque of, 365.
Mariette, A. F., 83.
mcfrifa (yvucns), doctrine of, 352.
Marj al-zuhur, 359.
Mark, St., 310.
markets, local, 382.
marquetry work, 137.
marriage, 204, 209, 215, 217, 271, 382-

4; incestuous, 278-80.
marriage settlements, 204, 209.
Mars, planet (red Horus), 161.

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Mary, gospel of, 262.
Ma'sara, limestone quarry at, 144, pi.
26.
Mashaykh medical papyrus, 183.
mashribiyya, 363.
masks, 105.
mason's square, 121, 149-50.
masonic craft, see stone-working.
mastabas, 86, 94-5,126-7,153, 385-
mat-making, 123-4, 129.
materia meclica, 194-5.
mathematics, 120,165-75.
mattdn, in Lachish inscriptions, 59.
Matteo, Di, 352.
Matthew, St., gospel of, 310, 318.
Matthias, gospel of, 311.
matting, representation of, pi. 17.
Mattiwaza, King, 38.
al-Mawa'iz wa 'l-i'iibdrfi dhikr al-khita£
wa n-dthdr, 358-9.
Maximinus Daza, 319.
Maxims of Ptahhotpe, 70, 73.
Mazzini, Giuseppe, 356.
measures, 176-7.
Medes, 45-6, 49, 231.
Medical Papyri, the, 180-4.
medicine, 179-97, 396-8.
medieval texts and MSS., relation of
papyri to, 258-61.
Medinet al-Faiyum, see Arsinoe.
Mediterranean peoples, 7.
Mediterranean Sea, 25, 29, 30, 115-16,
Megiddo, 221, 239. [218.
Meketre', pis. 19, 21.
Melania, Roman lady, 323.
Meletian letters, 263; schism, 340.
tntm, Hebrew, 56, 59-61, 63.
Memphis, 113116,235; archives of Sera-
pion at, 276; captured by Ashur-
banipal, 230; cemeteries, 82; gover-
nor's conventus at, 214; great pyra-
mid near, 93; priesthood of, 65;
sculptors of, 83; visibility of stars
from, i6i;see also Noph.
Memphitic dynasty, 107, 112, 126.
Menander, 252, 255, 339, 343-
Menes, King, 5 n. i, 6-7, 11-12,14.
Menkewre*, King, pi. 26.
Menophres, King, n n. i.
Mentuhoteps, the, 12, 27.
Mera, mastaba of, 95.