Thebes Its Tombs And Their Tenants Ancient And Present Including a Record of
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A Henry Alexander Henry Rhind
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(180 to 116 years B. C. ) in which an official owner of tombs, called there a Colchytus, complains to a Theban magistrate that one which was his property had been broken open and rifled, f Lastly, as we approach nearer our own day, a stronger impulse was given in the same direction, for, at a very early period of modern European intercourse with the East, * This seems universally, in early days, to have been a subject of dread. See among many well-known instances the curious one in the Phoenici...an inscription on the sarcophagus of Esmunazar, found at Sidon. Memoirs sur le Sarcophage d'Esmunazar par le Due de Luynes : Paris, 1856. f Note to Didot's Aristophanes ap. Feydeau, Hist, des Usages Funcbres, p. 167. It is needless to refer to the narrative of Strabo as to the tombs open and penetrable in his day, or to point to the scribbles by Greek visitors on their walls, showing that then, as now, they had ceased to be sacred, and were liable to the same in- excusable defacement from which they still suffer.
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