Word: egyptian
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Several gifts have been received by the Museum during the past year. They include nineteen fragments of papyri with Greek inscriptions, from Egypt, dating from the early centuries of the Christian era, and a handsome Egyptian mummy case...
...explorations in Egypt. For many centuries Egypt was intimately related to the Semitic world, and it is certain that a well-planned and vigorous expedition would bring to light many of the treasures still lying beneath its soil. Several European governments and learned societies are displaying great activity in Egyptian excavations, and owing to this activity the chances for success in this field are decreasing with each passing year. In order to begin this work for Harvard $10,000 a year is needed for at least five years...
...deposited in the Museum a lead pencil and wash drawing of Chamouni by John Ruskin--a work of the "Modern Painters" epoch, which was Ruskin's strongest time as a draughtsman. Eight hundred and fifty-eight photographs have been purchased during the year, comprising representations of Indian, Greek, and Egyptian sculpture, French and Flemish painting, architecture of France, Spain, the Netherlands and modern England and other subjects. Several additions have also been made to the library...
...collection, which is a very interesting one, is made up of nineteen fragments, written in Greek, in different states of preservation, and of various sizes. Twelve of them were found at Oxyrhynchus, an Egyptian town, and the seven others came from various towns in the Fayum, a district west of the Nile valley. All of these fragments, with many more which have been found by the Egypt Exploration Fund, are described at some length in the publications of the Fund,--"The Oxyrhynchus Papyri," a work in two volumes by B. P. Grenfell and A. S. Hunt of Oxford, and "Fayum...
...under way, Crete found itself nearer to Cyprus and Troy and also nearer to the Delta of the Nile than any other Greek or Aegean land. Crete, then, could be taken as a middle point between Europe, Africa and Asia, and it was made possible for the diffusion of Egyptian germs to be transmitted through Crete into Northern Europe. Hence we need feel no surprise when we note that the first historical datum in the history of the West and the Mediterranean is the tale of the Cretan king, Minos, and of his sea-empire by which piracy was kept...