Identifier: wanderingsinbibl00mill (find matches)
Title: Wanderings in Bible lands: notes of travel in Italy, Greece, Asia-Minor, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, Cush, and Palestine
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Miller, D(aniel) L(ong), 1841- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Mount Morris, Ill., The Brethren's publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ndrendered Zoan in the Hebrew. We are informed in theBible that Hebron was built seven years before Zoan inEgypt,t and that the Lord did marvelous things in thesight of the fathers of Israel in the land of Egypt, in thefield of Zoan.I The identification of Tanis with Zoanbrought to light another buried city of the Bible. We maybe able to enter somewhat into the feelings of the excava-tor by reading what Mr. Petrie says about some of his dis-coveries: -But the burnt houses were the real prize of the sea-son, as the owners had fled and left most of their goods;and the reddened patches of earth attracted us usually to aprofitable site. In one house there was a beautiful marbleterm, of Italian work; and the fragments of a very curiouszodiac, painted on a sheet of clear glass over a foot square,each sign or month having an emblematic head to repre-sent it; unhappily, it was broken in a hundred and fifty * Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers, pages 65, 67.f Lev. 13: 22. iPs. 78:12. i-Urt?* tffl
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WANDERINGS IN BIBLE LANDS. 381 pieces, and as I uncovered them it was cruel to see thegold-foil work which was on them peel off on to the earth,leaving the glass bare in many parts. A yet more heart-rending sight were the piles of papyrus rolls so rotted thatthey fell to pieces with a touch, showing here and there aletter of the finest Greek writing. The next house, alsoburnt, was the best of all. Here we found the limestonestatuette of the owner, Bakakhuiu, inscribed in demotic onthe base; a sensible, sturdy-looking, active man, who seemsto have been a lawyer or notary, to judge by his docu-ments. Many household objects of pottery and stone werefound, jars, mortars, etc., and a beautiful blue glazed jar,perhaps the largest such known and quite perfect. Therich result however was in his waste; for in a recess underthe cellar stairs had been five baskets of old papyri.Though many had utterly perished by being burnt to whiteash, yet one basketful was only carbonized; and tenderly un-der

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