The Mummy: Chapters on Egyptian Funereal ArchaeologyUniversity Press, 1894 - 404 pages |
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... colour of the soil , and if the colour of the ground for a few miles on each side of the Nile be compared with the Arabian and Libyan desert the appropriateness of the name Kam or Kamt is at once evident . Another old name of Egypt is ...
... colour of the soil , and if the colour of the ground for a few miles on each side of the Nile be compared with the Arabian and Libyan desert the appropriateness of the name Kam or Kamt is at once evident . Another old name of Egypt is ...
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... coloured red ; of these decorations scarcely any traces now remain , though they were visible towards the end of the last century . The condition in which the monument now appears is due to the savage destruction of its features by the ...
... coloured red ; of these decorations scarcely any traces now remain , though they were visible towards the end of the last century . The condition in which the monument now appears is due to the savage destruction of its features by the ...
Page 161
... colour ; the skin clings to the The body bones , for the flesh beneath it has shrunk somewhat , but the steeped in hair of the body is well preserved , the nails of the hands and feet still adhere to the skin , and the face , though now ...
... colour ; the skin clings to the The body bones , for the flesh beneath it has shrunk somewhat , but the steeped in hair of the body is well preserved , the nails of the hands and feet still adhere to the skin , and the face , though now ...
Page 162
... colours , and even of small strings of beads which they tied on the fingers in lieu of rings . The legs are then brought closely together , and the arms are laid on the body with one wrist crossed over the other . The cher - heb next ...
... colours , and even of small strings of beads which they tied on the fingers in lieu of rings . The legs are then brought closely together , and the arms are laid on the body with one wrist crossed over the other . The cher - heb next ...
Page 164
... colours mixed with water perfumed with anti , and each jackal shall have his face turned towards the other ; the jackal on the one bandage is Anubis , lord of Ḥert ; the jackal on the other is Horus , lord of Hebennu . Put Anubis on the ...
... colours mixed with water perfumed with anti , and each jackal shall have his face turned towards the other ; the jackal on the one bandage is Anubis , lord of Ḥert ; the jackal on the other is Horus , lord of Hebennu . Put Anubis on the ...
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