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See also:SAIS (See also:Egyptian Sai) , an See also:ancient See also:city of the Egyptian See also:Delta, lying westward of the Thermuthiac or Sebennytic See also:branch of the See also:Nile. It was See also:capital of the 5th See also:nome of See also:Lower See also:Egypt and must have been important from remote times. In the 8th See also:century B.C. Sais held the See also:hegemony of the Western Delta, while Bubastite families ruled in the See also:east and the See also:kings of See also:Ethiopia in Upper Egypt. The Ethiopians found their most vigorous opponents in the Saite princes Tefnachthus and his son Bocchoris " the See also:Wise " of the XXIVth See also:Dynasty. After reigning six years the latter is said to have been burnt alive by Sabacon, the founder of the Ethiopian XXVth Dynasty. At the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time when invasions by the Assyrians drove out the Ethiopian Taracus again and again, the See also:chief of the twenty princes to whom Esarhaddon and See also:Assur-bani-See also:pal successively entrusted the See also:government was Niku, See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of Sais and See also:Memphis. His son See also:Psammetichus (q.v.) was the founder of the XXVIth Dynasty. Although the See also:main seat of government was at Memphis, Sais remained the royal See also:residence throughout this flourishing dynasty. See also:Neith, the goddess of Sais, was identified with See also:Athena, and See also:Osiris was worshipped there in a See also:great festival.
The See also:brick enclosure See also:wall of the See also:temple is still plainly visible near the little See also:village of Sa el hagar (Sa of See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone) on the east See also:bank of the See also:Rosetta branch, but the royal tombs and other monuments of Sais, some of which were described by See also:Herodotus, and its inscribed records, have all gone. Only crude brick ruins and rubbish heaps remain on the site, but a few See also:relics conveyed to See also:Alexandria and See also:Europe in the See also:Roman See also:age have come down to our See also:day, notably the inscribed statue of a See also:priest of Neith who was high in favour with Psammetichus III., Carnbyses and See also:Darius. See also:Bronze figures of deities are now the most interesting See also:objects to be found at Sa el hagar.
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