88 THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS. CHAP. XI. 



circular area * near the field, or in the vicinity of 

 the granary t, where, when it had been well swept t, 

 the ears were deposited, and cattle were driven 

 over it to tread out the grain. While superintending 

 the animals employed for this purpose, the Egyp- 

 tian peasant, as usual both in ancient and modern 

 times, relieved his labours by singing ; and the 

 ingenious Champolhon § found in a tomb at Eile- 

 thyas a song of the threshers, written in hierogly- 



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No. 430 Song of the threshers to tlie oxen. Eilelhyas. 



phics over oxen treading out the grain, of which 

 he gives this translation: — *'(l)Thresh for your- 

 selves (twice repeated 11), (2) O oxen, (3) thresh for 



* Those of the Romans were paved, or more usually formed of clay, 

 well laid down and smoothed by rollers. Virg. Georg! i. 178. 

 f As with the Romans. Vide Coluni. i. 6. 

 X Conf. Matthew, iii. 12. 



{\ Lettres sur I'Egypte, 11th and 12th letters, p. 146. 196. 

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