The Mummy: Chapters on Egyptian Funereal Archaeology |
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Three Mastabas at Gizeh Entrance to a Mastaba at Şakşârah Plan of a Mastaba with four serdâbs Longitudinal section of a Mastaba Transverse section of a Mastaba Transverse section at the bottom of a serdâb Upper chamber , pit and ...
Åpuat V Bot ... ... ... ... O xo ... ... Ánpu ( Anubis ) A f Shu B Hāpi ( the Nile ) 8 Hāpi ( Apis ) 8 Àusår - Hāpi ( Serapis ) te ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Mnevis ... ... ... Mesthå The four children of Horus Sati and Ănqet -04 h .
On their road they dug four wells , and having arrived safely on the shores of the Red Sea , they took ship and sailed probably for the southern part of the Arabian peninsula . The expedition returned successfully , bearing with it ...
In the forty - third year of his reign Ameni Amenemḥāt , a high official , set out for Ethiopia with four hundred soldiers to quell a rebellion which had broken out there . This expedition was perfectly successful , and having smitten ...
... and partly to exercise his armed men , and thereby to terrify foreigners . When this man had reigned thirteen years , after him reigned another whose name was Beon for forty - four years ; after him reigned another , called Apachnas ...
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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 |