 In those nearest the mines lived the workmen who were employed to break the quartz into small fragments, the size of a bean, from whose hands the pounded stone passed to the persons who ground it in hand-mills, similar to those now used for corn in the...  The Archaeological Journal - Page 3121869Full view - About this book
 | John Gardner Wilkinson - 1837 - 460 pages
...torrent, is a group of houses, about three hundred in number, laid out very regularly in straight lines. In those nearest the mines lived the workmen who were...similar to those now used for corn in the valley of the Nile, made of a granitic stone ; one of which is to be found in almost every house at these mines,... | |
 | Thomas Joseph Pettigrew - 1842 - 82 pages
...torrent, is a group of houses, about three hundred in number, laid out very regularly in straight lines. In those nearest the mines lived the workmen who were...similar to those now used for corn in the valley of the Nile, made of a granite stone ; one of which is to be found in almost every house at these mines, either... | |
 | John Gardner Wilkinson - 1847 - 444 pages
...torrent is a group of houses, about three hundred in number, laid out very regularly in straight lines. In those nearest the mines lived the workmen who were...similar to those now used for corn in the valley of the Nile, made of a granitic stone ; one of which is to be found in almost every house at. these mines,... | |
 | 1854 - 488 pages
...torrent a group of houses, about three hundred in number, laid out very regularly in straight lines. In those nearest the mines lived the workmen who were...similar to those now used for corn in the valley of the Nile made of a granitic stone ; one of which is to be found in almost every house at these mines, either... | |
 | 1854 - 470 pages
...torrent a group of houses, about three hundred in number, laid out very regularly in straight lines. In those nearest the mines lived the workmen who were...similar to those now used for corn in the valley of the Nile made of a granitic stone ; one of which is to be found in almost every house at these mines, either... | |
 | John Gardner Wilkinson - 1854 - 456 pages
...torrent a group of houses, about three hundred in number, laid out very regularly in straight lines. In those nearest the mines lived the workmen who were...similar to those now used for corn in the valley of the Nile, made of a granitic stone; one of which is to be found in almost every house at these mines, either... | |
 | Sir John Gardner Wilkinson - 1854 - 466 pages
...torrent a group of houses, about three hundred in number, laid out very regularly in straight lines. In those nearest the mines lived the workmen who were...similar to those now used for corn in the valley of the Nile, made of a granitic stone ; one of which is to be found in almost every house at these mines,... | |
 | sir John Gardner Wilkinson - 1854 - 496 pages
...torrent is a group of houses, about three hundred in number, laid out very regularly in straight lines. In those nearest the mines lived the workmen who were...into small fragments, the size of a bean, from whose hand's the pounded stone passed to the persons who ground it in hand-mills, similar to those now used... | |
 | William Smith - 1863 - 1038 pages
...quotes (Anc. Kg. iii. 229, 230). Kuins of the miners' huts still remain as at Surabit el-Khadim. " In those nearest the mines lived the workmen who were...fragments, the size of a bean, from whose hands the jK'unded stone passed to th<' pi-rsons who ground it in hand-mills, similar to those now used for com... | |
 | William Smith - 1863 - 1042 pages
...quotes (An,;. Eg. Hi. 229, 230). Ruins of the miners' huts still remain as at Surabit el-Khadim. " In those nearest the mines lived the workmen who were...similar to those now used for corn in the valley of the Nile made of granitic stone ; one of which is to be found in almost every house at these mines, either... | |
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