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Memphite
[ mem-fahyt ]
adjective
- Also Mem·phit·ic [] of or relating to the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis.
noun
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The tombs of the Memphite kings have not preserved for us anything that can fairly be called sculpture.
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Between the contour of a figure from a Memphite bas-relief and that of one from Nineveh, what difference is there?
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Egyptologists are now inclined to believe that the essential parts of this ritual date back as far as the Memphite period.
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But the pyramid properly speaking was confined to the Memphite period.
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Almost all the peculiarities of the Memphite tomb are to be explained by the hypotheses with which primitive man is content.
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