The MummyCollier Books, 1972 - 404 pages |
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Page 173
... bitumen , " and the Arabic word for mummy is , which means a " bitumenized thing , " or a body preserved by bitumen . The Syriac - speaking people called it as , the Greeks mittáo- 2 1 I have reproduced here many paragraphs from my ...
... bitumen , " and the Arabic word for mummy is , which means a " bitumenized thing , " or a body preserved by bitumen . The Syriac - speaking people called it as , the Greeks mittáo- 2 1 I have reproduced here many paragraphs from my ...
Page 183
... bitumen are quite black and hard . The features are preserved intact , but the body is heavy and unfair to look upon . The bitumen penetrates the bones so completely that Bodies pre- it is sometimes difficult to distinguish which is ...
... bitumen are quite black and hard . The features are preserved intact , but the body is heavy and unfair to look upon . The bitumen penetrates the bones so completely that Bodies pre- it is sometimes difficult to distinguish which is ...
Page 184
... bitumen methods ; one method consisted of soaking in salt and hot bitumen , and the other in salt only . In the first process every cavity was filled with bitumen , and the hair disappeared ; clearly it is to the bodies which were ...
... bitumen methods ; one method consisted of soaking in salt and hot bitumen , and the other in salt only . In the first process every cavity was filled with bitumen , and the hair disappeared ; clearly it is to the bodies which were ...
Contents
The Egyptian Race and Language | 1 |
Egyptian Chronology | 10 |
The History of Egypt | 18 |
Copyright | |
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The Mummy: Chapters on Egyptian Funereal Archaeology Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge Limited preview - 1964 |
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Akerblad alabaster alphabet Amāsis Amenophis Amenophis III amulet Ani's Anubis Ausår Autocrator bandages beetle Birch bitumen body Book British Museum bronze Cæsar called Canopic jars cartouche Cham Champollion chapter characters coffin colour Coptic cover Dead deceased demotic Diodorus disk Egyptian hieroglyphics embalming example faïence funeral glazed faïence gods gold Greek hand Hathor head heart hemt hieratic hiero hieroglyphics Horapollo Horus Hyksos inscribed inscriptions Isis jars l'inscription large number Lepsius letter linen lord Manetho Memphis mummy name and titles Naville Nephthys neter Nubia obelisk ornamented Osiris painted papyrus Paris period Persians placed pollion Ptaḥ Ptolemy Rameses Rameses II reign represented Rosetta Stone royal Sacy says scarabs scribe sepulchral side Silvestre de Sacy sometimes steatite stelæ stele suten temple Thebes Thothmes tion tombs translation underworld uræus ushabtiu figures vases wearing XVIIIth dynasty XXVIth dynasty Young δὲ καὶ τὴν τῶν