 Then having filled the belly with pure myrrh pounded, and cassia, and other perfumes, frankincense excepted, they sew it up again ; and when they have done this, they steep it in natrum, leaving it under for seventy days ; for a longer time than this...  Egyptian Days - Page 103by Philip Sanford Marden - 1912 - 329 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Herodotus, Henry Cary - 1848 - 634 pages
...brains through the nostrils with an iron hook, taking part of it out in this manner, the rest by the infusion of drugs. Then with a sharp Ethiopian stone...this the relations, having taken the body back again, make a wooden case in the shape of a man, and having made it, they enclose the body ; and thus, having... | |
 | Herodotus, Henry Cary - 1852 - 642 pages
...brains through the nostrils with an iron hook, taking part of it out in this manner, the rest by the infusion of drugs. Then with a sharp Ethiopian stone...this the relations, having taken the body back again, make a wooden case in the shape of a man, and having made it, they enclose the body ; and thus, having... | |
 | John Duns - 1863 - 650 pages
...belly with pure myrrh pounded, and cassia, and other perfumes, frankincense excepted, they sew it up ; and when they have done this, they steep it in natrum,...this the relations, having taken the body back again, make a wooden case in the shape of a man, and having made it, they inclose the body; and thus, having... | |
 | Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) - 1876 - 482 pages
...frankincense excepted, they sew it up again ; and when they have done this, they steep it in vetrum, leaving it under for seventy days ; for a longer time...this, the relations, having taken the body back again, make a * Arts of Greeks and Romans, vol. i., 38. t Clio, i. 198. wooden case in the shape of a man,... | |
 | Herodotus, Henry Cary - 1885 - 628 pages
...brains through the nostrils with an iron hook, taking part of it out in this manner, the rest by the infusion of drugs. Then with a sharp Ethiopian stone...this the relations, having taken the body back again, make a wooden case in the shape of a man, and having made it, they enclose the body ; and thus, having... | |
 | Herodotus - 1892 - 630 pages
...the expiration of the seventy days they wash the corpse, and wrap the whole body in bandages of naxen cloth, smearing it with gum, which the Egyptians commonly...this the relations, having taken the body back again, make a wooden case in the shape of a man, and having made it, they inclose the body ; and thus, having... | |
 | Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge - 1894 - 450 pages
...for 70 days ; for a longer time than this it is not lawful to steep it At the expiration of the 70 days they wash the corpse, and wrap the whole body...this the relations, having taken the body back again, make a wooden case in the shape of a man,1 and having made it, they enclose the body ; and thus, having... | |
 | Herodotus - 1899 - 626 pages
...brains through the nostrils with an iron hook, taking part of it out in this manner, the rest by the infusion of drugs. Then with a sharp Ethiopian stone...Egyptians commonly use instead of glue. After this the relatives, having taken the body back again, make a wooden case in the shape of a man, and having made... | |
 | Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge - 1964 - 446 pages
...for 70 days ; for a longer time than this it is not lawful to steep it. At the expiration of the 70 days they wash the corpse, and wrap the whole body...this the relations, having taken the body back again, make a wooden case in the shape of a man,1 and having made it, they enclose the body ; and thus, having... | |
 | Dick Teresi - 2010 - 468 pages
...At the expiration of seventy days they wash the corpse, and wrap the whole body in bandages of waxen cloth, smearing it with gum, which the Egyptians commonly use instead of glue.2'' The natron in which the body is steeped occurs naturally in Egyptian lakes.27 Chemists debate... | |
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