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HISTORY OF EGYPT

From 330 B.C. to the Present Time

By S. RAPPOPORT, Doctor of Philosophy, Basel

Member of the Ecole Langues Orientales, Paris; Russian, German,
French Orientalist and Philologist

VOL. X.

Containing over Twelve Hundred Colored Plates and Illustrations

THE GROLIER SOCIETY
PUBLISHERS, LONDON








Contents

PREFACE

PUBLISHER'S NOTE

EGYPT UNDER THE PTOLEMIES

INTRODUCTORY ESSAY

CHAPTER I—EGYPT CONQUERED BY THE GREEKS

CHAPTER II—EGYPT UNDER PTOLEMY SOTER

CHAPTER III.—PTOLEMY PHILADELPHUS. B.C. 284-246

CHAPTER IV—PTOLEMY EUERGETES, PTOLEMY PHILOPATOR, AND PTOLEMY

CHAPTER V—PTOLEMY PHILOMETOR AND PTOLEMY EUERGETES II.

CHAPTER VI—THE GROWTH OF ROMAN INFLUENCE IN EGYPT

CHAPTER VII—CLEOPATRA AND HER BROTHERS






List of Color Images and Special Illustrations

Page Image—Alexandria

A Theban Belle

Prayer to Isis

Manuscript on Papyrus; Hieroglyphics, Thebes

A Typical Nile Pilot

An Abyssinian Slave

Signs, Arms and Instruments from the Fifth Tomb

The Rosetta Stone (british Museum)

Temple of Apollonopolis

Color plate

Suk El Saleh, Cairo

Horus on the Crocodiles. Bulak Museum.

Bearers of Evil Tidings

Cleopatra's Needle.


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