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View of the Coffin Chamber . Mummy of Artemidorus “ Canopic " Jar . Ushabti
figure of the Scribe Pa - mer - ahu Ptah - Seker - Ausår figure with stand for
holding a portion of a mummied body or papyrus Ptah - Seker - Ausår figure
which held ...
View of the Coffin Chamber . Mummy of Artemidorus “ Canopic " Jar . Ushabti
figure of the Scribe Pa - mer - ahu Ptah - Seker - Ausår figure with stand for
holding a portion of a mummied body or papyrus Ptah - Seker - Ausår figure
which held ...
Page xi
... Methods of Mummifying vo hieroglyphical literature ... - - - --- ... I 53 n Egyptian
Funeral ... - --- --- - - - 3– - I LKsummy Cloth and Akhmim Embroideries ... ... 189
Canopic Jars and the inscriptions upon them ... --- ... I 94 Chests for Canopic Jars.
... Methods of Mummifying vo hieroglyphical literature ... - - - --- ... I 53 n Egyptian
Funeral ... - --- --- - - - 3– - I LKsummy Cloth and Akhmim Embroideries ... ... 189
Canopic Jars and the inscriptions upon them ... --- ... I 94 Chests for Canopic Jars.
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... thus a Libation was originally denoted by a hand holding a jar, with two
streams of a liquid issuing from it, but in this inscription the representation has
degenerated into a bird's foot. With respect to the epistolographic or enchorial
character, ...
... thus a Libation was originally denoted by a hand holding a jar, with two
streams of a liquid issuing from it, but in this inscription the representation has
degenerated into a bird's foot. With respect to the epistolographic or enchorial
character, ...
Page 160
While this was being done a set of four alabaster jars was brought from the stores
of the cher - heb's establishment , and in each of these one of the four packets of
Compare 1 Puer © © “ the four 1 children of Horus , in the form of four figures ...
While this was being done a set of four alabaster jars was brought from the stores
of the cher - heb's establishment , and in each of these one of the four packets of
Compare 1 Puer © © “ the four 1 children of Horus , in the form of four figures ...
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embalmed intestines was placed . Each jar was inscribed with a forinula , and all
that was wanted to make it the property of Ani was to inscribe his name upon it in
the blank spaces left for the purpose . Each jar had a cover made in Jars for the ...
embalmed intestines was placed . Each jar was inscribed with a forinula , and all
that was wanted to make it the property of Ani was to inscribe his name upon it in
the blank spaces left for the purpose . Each jar had a cover made in Jars for the ...
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| Title | The Mummy: Chapters on Egyptian Funereal Archaeology |
| Author | Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | University Press, 1894 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 12 Oct 2007 |
| Length | 404 pages |
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