The Mummy: A Handbook of Egyptian Funerary Archaeology

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Cambridge University Press, 2010 M07 22 - 620 pages
Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge (1857-1934) was a prominent English Egyptologist who was Keeper of the Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities in the British Museum between 1893 and 1924. He was knighted in 1920 for his contributions to Egyptology. First published in 1893, this book contains a detailed discussion of the funerary rituals and objects which were used in Egyptian religion to allow the deceased to live again in the Duat (the afterlife). Budge provides detailed descriptions of common religious texts, religious rites and the major deities involved in these. He also includes interpretations for other artefacts which commonly accompanied a burial, including shabiti statues and amulets. His comprehensive study represents the state of Egyptian funerary archaeology before major archaeological finds of the twentieth century challenged its interpretations. The text reissued here is taken from the expanded and revised second edition, published in 1925.

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Contents

The Nile and the Annual Inundation
12
List of the Nesubati and SonofRa Names of the Principal
85
The Decipherment of the Egyptian Hieroglyphs
123
A List of the Commonest Hieroglyphs
178
A List of the Commonest Determinatives
194
The Mummy Methods of Mummifying etc
203
Mummy Labels
214
The Mummygrid and Mummyboard
219
The Fingers of Horus and Set Tchebaui p
325
An Egyptian Funeral in the Dynastic Period
336
The Ceremony of the Four Blazing Flames
351
Herpakhart j Harpokrates
359
Anpu J Anubis
362
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368
Maat a
375
Wooden Figures of Asar and PtahSekerAsar
382

Models of Personal Attendants and Slaves in the Tomb
223
Anointing Tablets and the Seven Holy Oils
239
Chests for Canopic Jars
245
Pectorals in Porcelain and Steatite
249
Ushabtiu in Small Sarcophagi and Coffins
256
Beads and Necklaces Rings Bracelets Armlets etc
266
The Scarab and the Scarabaeus sacer
280
The Collar or Pectoral Usekh
314
The SoulAmulet
322
The SnakebiteAmulet Arart
322
The Cat of Bast 36
387
Vessels in Earthenware Stone Glass etc
389
The Egyptian Sarcophagus
420
The Hetep or Tablet for Sepulchral Offerings
432
Foundation Deposits
450
Models of Objects used at the Opening of the Mouth
461
The Cippus of Horus
470
Numbers
482
HetHert Hathor 375
495
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E.A. Wallis Budge, 1857 - 1934 Budge was the Curator of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities at the British Museum from 1894 to 1924. He was also a Sometime Scholar of Christ's College, a scholar at the University of Cambridge, Tyrwhitt, and a Hebrew Scholar. He collected a large number of Coptic, Greek, Arabic, Syriac, Ethiopian, and Egyptian Papyri manuscripts. He was involved in numerous archaeology digs in Egypt, Mesopotamia and the Sudan. Budge is known for translating the Egyptian Book of the Dead, which is also known as The Papyrus of Ani. He also analyzed many of the practices of Egyptian religion, language and ritual. His written works consisted of translated texts and hieroglyphs and a complete dictionary of hieroglyphs. Budge's published works covered areas of Egyptian culture ranging from Egyptian religion, Egyptian mythology and magical practices. He was knighted in 1920. E.A. Wallis Budge died on November 23, 1934 in London, England.

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