The Legacy Of Egypt

Index

al-Suyut5, 359.

Swete, H. B., 238

sycamore fig wood, 137.

Sylvia, Spanish lady, 326.

symbolism, tradition in, 97.

symbols, hieroglyphic, 90.

Symmachus, 305.

Syria: city-states in, 24; commercial
and cultural unity of Mesopotamia
and, 26; construction of the mosque
evolved in Iraq and, 361, 364;
Egyptian credit in, 76; Hittites in,
42; ivories of, 116; possible invaders
from, 125; pottery of, 20-1; timber
from, 20, 23, 28; trade routes, 26;
trading contacts, 6; tribute to Egypt,
35; under Babylonian influence, 29;
use of papyrus in, 55.

— North, 27, 47.

Syria-Palestine: Asiatics of, 219, 221;
and Babylonian Empire, 233; Egypt
and, 218-19, 222> 229» 23*» 238-40;
conquest of, 220, 227-8; geographi-
cal position, 218; revolt of States in,
224-6.

Syrian Church, 327.

Syrian people, and people of Lower
Egypt, 7.

Taanach, city, 221, 239.
Tabennesi, monastery at, 319-20.
Tacitus, 10, 287-8.
* Taha Husayn, writer, 356.
Tahpanes, place, 235.
Taj aborts, 355.
Taj al-Din, ShafVi, 356.
Talmud, the, 13 n. i.
tamarisk wood, 137.
Tanis, city, 47.
tanning, 130.

Tanutamon, pharaoh, 230-1.
tapestry weaving, 130.
Taql al-Din al-Subki, Shafi'i, 356.
tartqa, 352, 354.

Tartessos, kingdom of, tin from, 44.
tasawwuj, 352.
tattooing, 388.
tau, 56, 59,

Taurus mountains, 27, 34.
Taus, 279.
tax-receipts, 270.

421

tax rolls, 205.
taxation, 202, 215, 273, 275, 287, 294,
334-5» 338.
Taylor, F. H., 119.
Teachings of kings, &c., 67-70, 75,245-
Tebtunis papyrus, 273. [8.
Tehena, 224.
Tell el-'Amama, 37, 104-5, 144, 159,
176; art of, 83; fragments of statues
from, 89; letters, 36, 38, 219, 221-3,
240.
Tell el-Duweir (Lachish), 59-60.
Tell el-Hesi, 58.
Tell Zakariya, 222 n. 2,
temple year, 2.
temples, 117-18, 239; as evidence of
civilization, 85; art of, 85-6; bas-
reliefs hi, 88; gifts to, 88; mortuary,
94; pagan, 327; pre-dynastic, 22.
tenons, 138.
tents, 130.
Teres, 279.
Tertullian, 313.
textiles, in Islamic Egypt, 366-7.
texts, 88, 258-61.
textual criticism, aid from papyri, 258-
Thales, 65, 160. [9.
Thamudic alphabet, of Arabia, 62.
Thebaid, Duke of, 341; epistrategus of,
Thebais, Palladius in, 323-4. [277.
Theban nobles, 27.
Thebes (No-Amon), 33, 76,113, 202-4,
224; Assyrians in, 230; burial-place
at, 101-2; 'centre of the world*,
115-16; destruction of, 48; Kamak
temple at, 226; painting at, 101-2;
priesthood of, 65; royal residence at,
38; Valley of the Kings, 104-5.
Theocritus, 65, 343.
Theoctistus, bp. of Caesarea, 304.
Theodora, wife of Justinian, 327.
Theodorus, 348.
Theodosius, 327.
Theodotion, 305.
Theopompus, comic poet, 257,
therapeutics, 191.
Thmui, Serapion of, 318.
Thoth, god, 66, 162, 376, 387.
Thutmose, sculptor, 81,104-5,
Thut-nakht, tomb of, 146,
Ti, 94-5* "*•