The Mummy: Chapters on Egyptian Funereal Archaeology |
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And just as we know nothing of the period of the advent of the invaders , so also
we know nothing of the aboriginal people whom we may assume they found
living there when they arrived . The Egyptian aborigines are thought by some to
have ...
... been brought to view . The Sphinx is hewn out of the living rock , but pieces of
stone have been added where necessary ; the body is about 150 feet long , the
paws are 50 feet long , the head is 30 feet long , the face is 14 feet wide , and
from ...
And if the living were well cared for , the dead were no less so . The tombs built
for high Beauty of . officials and gentlemen attest the care of the sorrowing
Egyptian relatives , while the sculptures and paintings employed to XIlth adorn
them ...
... power of Egypt must ever have been of a shadowy nature , boldly declared
themselves free , and their neighbours and kinsmen living in Syria and in the
districts to the north and north - east of Damascus followed Conquest their
example .
... 66 feet high , seated on thrones , hewn out of the living rock . The large hall
inside contains eight columns with large figures of Osiris about 17 feet high upon
them . Among other matters the inscriptions give a list of the children of Rameses
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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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