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... before Christ . Menkaurā or Mykerinos is famous as the builder of the 3633
third pyramid at Gîzeh . The fragments of his inner wooden coffin and a small
fragment of his basalt sarcophagus are the oldest preserved in the British
Museum ...
He supplied the Lacedæmonians with wood for building one hundred triremes
and half a million bushels of grain at the time when Agesilaus was fighting
against the Persians . He reigned six 393 years , and was succeeded by P - se -
mut or ...
WOOD 30 Chum * * ) Het heq . . . . . . . son of the Sun , Meri - Amen Pa - seb - xā .
nu . ( Pasebyānu II . ) DYNASTY XXI . , FROM THEBES , B . C . 1100 . 204 . 204 .
My ( 9664 ) 3 ( 15 - 9 V son of the Sun , Neter - ḥen - ḥetep en Amen , Prophet ...
It was also decreed that a gilded wooden shrine , containing a gilded wooden
statue of the king , should be placed in each temple , and that these were to be
carried out with the shrines of the other kings in the great panegyrics . It was also
...
During the seventy days which have been spent in Ani ' s embalming Ani ' s body
, the coffin makers have not been idle , and they have made ready a covering of
wood to be laid on the mummy , and two beautiful coffins . The covering , in the ...
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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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