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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt:...applied to these scribes of the steward. Register 5.--Family Of Aba, Etc. The patriarchal dignity of the deceased is enhanced, as usual, by the presence of his family 1 Practical considerations would suggest that the second axe in his hands is a correction of the designer. The rounded top of the mallet may also be an error in the first sketch. 2 Some one seems to have added the remark, " I am coming," in explanation, perhaps, of the backward glance. as well as by the exhibition of his numerous retainers and serfs. His wife and seven sons are here represented, the latter of whom share only four names between them; in face, however, of the many examples of such a practice we may accept the record as true (see p. 12). A scene follows here so inappropriately that it must have been added merely to fill the vacant corner. It really belongs to the series on the W. side of the wall, and represents what was an important branch of farm economy, the keeping of fowl. Here two pens are stocked, the one with cranes, the other with geese, and grain is being thrown to them from a bag by. an attendant. In the goose-pen apparently a shelving basin is provided for the birds to swim in. The hollow is indicated by adding two sections of it to the combined plan and elevation of the pen.3 East Wall. (Plate vii.) The scenes on this wall have but little interest, are roughly executed, and are, in addition, in a very bad state of preservation. But the inscriptions are of such value as to make their fragmentary condition a matter of deep regret. The motive of the designer here was essentially biographical, not, however, with the view of merely enumerating the wealth of Aba and the royal favours he had received, but of making them the just ground for maintaining the service...