The Mummy: Chapters on Egyptian Funereal ArchaeologyBiblo and Tannen, 1964 - 404 pages |
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Page 108
... hieroglyphics may be fitly introduced by a des- cription of the remarkable objects of antiquity whose names stand at the head of this chapter . The Rosetta Stone is a slab of black basalt , which is now preserved in the British Museum ...
... hieroglyphics may be fitly introduced by a des- cription of the remarkable objects of antiquity whose names stand at the head of this chapter . The Rosetta Stone is a slab of black basalt , which is now preserved in the British Museum ...
Page 111
... hieroglyphic alphabet could never have been recovered from the Rosetta Stone , still it is Rosetta around this wonderful document that all the interest in the base of decipherment of the Egyptian hieroglyphics clings . For decipher ...
... hieroglyphic alphabet could never have been recovered from the Rosetta Stone , still it is Rosetta around this wonderful document that all the interest in the base of decipherment of the Egyptian hieroglyphics clings . For decipher ...
Page 221
... hieroglyphics are small , but cleanly cut , and they have a beauty which is in itself sufficient to proclaim the time to which they belong . The inscriptions are copied from ancient texts , and as neither the scribe nor the sculptor ...
... hieroglyphics are small , but cleanly cut , and they have a beauty which is in itself sufficient to proclaim the time to which they belong . The inscriptions are copied from ancient texts , and as neither the scribe nor the sculptor ...
Contents
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Figures of Kings and Private Persons | 49 |
Anpu Anubis | 73 |
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Akerblad alabaster alphabet Amenophis Amenophis III amulet ancient Ani's Anubis Autocrator bandages beetle bitumen body Book British Museum Cæsar called Canopic jars cartouche Cham chamber Champollion chapter characters coffin colour Coptic cover Dead deceased demotic disk Egypt Egyptian embalming example faïence feet funereal glazed faïence gods gold Greek hand Hathor head heart hemt Heru hieratic hieroglyphics Horus inches inscribed inscriptions Isis jars king l'inscription laid large number Lepsius linen lord maṣṭaba Memphis mummy name and titles Naville Nephthys neter ornamented Osiris painted papyrus Paris period placed pollion Ptaḥ Ptolemy pyramid Rameses Rameses II rectangular reign represented Rosetta Stone royal Sacy sarcophagus scarabs scenes scribe sepulchral side Silvestre de Sacy sometimes steatite stelæ stele suten t'etta temple Thebes Thothmes tion tombs translation underworld uræus ushabtiu figures vases wearing wood wooden XIIth XVIIIth dynasty XXVIth dynasty Young δὲ καὶ τὴν τῶν