Saite
Americannoun
adjective
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Also Saitic of or relating to Saïs or its inhabitants.
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of or relating to the period 663–525 b.c., when the Pharaohs ruled at Saïs.
noun
Etymology
Origin of Saite
Example Sentences
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“We are standing before a goldmine of information,” said Dr Ramadan Badry Hussein, director of the Saqqara Saite Tombs Project which oversees the excavation.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 14, 2018
Almost certainly then, Plato's story gives the Saite version of the actual Egyptian records of the greatness and the final disaster of that great island state with which Egypt so long maintained intercourse.
From The Sea-Kings of Crete by James Baikie
The only remarkable later development of Palestinian pottery is the Phoenician imitation of Egyptian faience of the Saite period, of which the characteristics are well known.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various
It has more variety of colour than the glazed faience, light green and a dark indigo blue being found as well as the Saite light blue.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various
In the Saite period this is replaced by the more general title of “Beginning of the Chapter of going forth from day.”
From The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
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