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The Temple of Dendûr. By Aylward M. Blackman. Service des Antiquités de l'Egypte. Les Temples Immergés de la Nubie. Le Caire, 1911.

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The Temple of Dendûr. By Aylward M. Blackman. Service des Antiquités de l'Egypte. Les Temples Immergés de la Nubie. Le Caire, 1911.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

H. R. Hall
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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 45 , Issue 3 , July 1913 , pp. 726 - 729
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1913

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1 Commenting on a title given to one of these “sheykhs”, which would appear to describe him as “the Dweller in the Underworld”, a dead person or Osiris of power in Hades, Mr. Blackman compares the expression iḫwân-na min taḥt el-arḍ, “our brothers beneath the earth,” which he says is often used by the fellaḥîn in speaking of sheykhs (p. 83, n. 4). But I do not see that in the mouth of a modern fellaḥ this need mean anything more than it would mean in that of a modern European; it simply denotes those who are buried in the cemetery. The old Nubian regarded Pihor as a very potent Osiris and god of the Underworld; there can be nothing of this in the very natural expression iḫwân-na min taḥt el-arḍ.