The Mummy: Chapters on Egyptian Funereal Archaeology |
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... any statement as to their race characteristics must be based on pure
assumption . About the race to which the Egyptian known to us from mummies
and statues belongs and his characteristics , there is 1 Among the books which
derive ...
The only known language which it resembles is Coptic , and this is now pretty
well understood to be a dialect of the language of the hieroglyphics . Benfey :
endeavoured to show that the Egyptian had sprung from a Semitic stock , and De
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... known . Each nome with its independent administration , formed , practically , a
small but complete state . The number of the nomes according to classical
authors varies ; Diodorus , who says ( i . 54 ) that the nome dates from the time of
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... of the period which preceded Mena ( Menes ) , the Egyptian History . first
historical king of Egypt , nothing is known . According to Manetho a race of demi -
gods and kings from This , near Abydos , and from Memphis ruled over Egypt
before ...
... kings in Manetho ' s list are in many instances corrupt ; by the help of the
monuments , however , the greater number can be corrected , and the value of
the document is the more assured as more of the historical inscriptions become
known .
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'The Mummy' is an amazing book because it's so much more than a description of how, why and when Ancient Egyptians preserved their dead. Look just through the contents and you'll be amazed at the range of material - as if Wallis Budge had emptied a sackful of knowledge for the learner to pick through. Because that's it's best use, a source book on Ancient Egypt - as long as you remember it's dated and some ideas rejected.
The first few pages introduce and include a list of the nomes (districts) in hieroglyphics and transcriptions. The pages on Egyptian chronology, as well as reviewing problems oof disagreement ammong both sources and scholars includes a useful list of rulers - although the real jewel here, following a good basic history, is a list of 2 of the 5 names available of Pharaohs (hieroglyphics & transcriptions); this is a must for any visitor to inscriptions in museums or Egypt itself. A clear history of the decipherment of hieroglyphics is followed by a useful list of hieroglyphs, useful that is for those looking at REAL inscriptions.Then the book gets into mummies IN DETAIL but beware as, for example when dealing with ushabti, Budge will throw at you a whole paragraph of (untranslated) hieroglyphics - after all, you did read everything before that, didn't you? Then anything and everything is on offer - stelae, coffins, draught-boards,the gods, graves, numbers ..... As I said above it is a book to dpp into and not to read from cover to cover. And that's why I give it 4 stars
PS It's by far the most USEFUL of my books on Ancient Egypt
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The Mummy: Chapters on Egyptian Funereal Archaeology Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge Limited preview - 1964 |
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| Title | The Mummy: Chapters on Egyptian Funereal Archaeology ATLA monograph preservation program |
| Author | Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | University Press, 1894 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 7 Aug 2008 |
| ISBN | 0524010471, 9780524010471 |
| Length | 404 pages |
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