The Mummy: A Handbook of Egyptian Funerary Archaeology - Revised and Enlarged Edition -Cosimo, Inc., 2011 M03 1 - 578 pages The Mummy, A Handbook of Egyptian Funerary Archaeology is linguist and Orientalist E.A. Wallis Budge's detailed overview of Egyptian funeral practices and beliefs. Included is a history of Egypt, as well as the translation of common hieroglyphs, to augment readers' understanding of Egyptian culture. He describes in detail the wrapping and burying of mummies, the attendants to the tombs and the dead, drawings and hieroglyphs found on tomb walls, coffins and sarcophagi, treasures buried with the dead, and scarabs, among other things. This book is a beautiful complement to The Book of the Dead, which describes the Egyptian afterlife and the motivations for detailed and drawn-out burials. This edition is the revised and enlarged edition, originally published in 1925. SIR ERNEST ALFRED THOMPSON WALLIS BUDGE (1857-1934) was born in Bodmin, Cornwall in the UK and discovered an interest in languages at a very early age. Budge spent all his free time learning and discovering Semitic languages, including Assyrian, Syriac, and Hebrew. Eventually, through a close contact, he was able to acquire a job working with Egyptian and Iraqi artifacts at the British Museum. Budge excavated and deciphered numerous cuneiform and hieroglyphic documents, contributing vastly to the museum's collection. Eventually, he became the Keeper of his department, specializing in Egyptology. Budge wrote many books during his lifetime, most specializing in Egyptian life, religion, and language. |
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Page viii
... buried with mummies instruct us concerning the Egyptian Religion ; the scenes , sculptured or painted on the walls of the corridors and chambers in the tombs in which they were laid , enable us to re- construct the history of the daily ...
... buried with mummies instruct us concerning the Egyptian Religion ; the scenes , sculptured or painted on the walls of the corridors and chambers in the tombs in which they were laid , enable us to re- construct the history of the daily ...
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... buried " ; but of the great mass of the working and peasant classes , who were not " buried , " they tell us nothing . And it is the same in the case of the mummies of the Dynastic Period , which were of kings or priests or high ...
... buried " ; but of the great mass of the working and peasant classes , who were not " buried , " they tell us nothing . And it is the same in the case of the mummies of the Dynastic Period , which were of kings or priests or high ...
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... buried in the pre- natal position on their left sides , with the hands placed before their faces and their chins almost touching their knees.1 Women of quality were buried in the same position . No example of a pre- dynastic Egyptian ...
... buried in the pre- natal position on their left sides , with the hands placed before their faces and their chins almost touching their knees.1 Women of quality were buried in the same position . No example of a pre- dynastic Egyptian ...
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... buried in a brick - built tomb at Abydos , and the ebony plaques found in it prove that in his reign the Egyptians were able to arrange hieroglyphs in such a way as to form sentences with connected meanings . The influence under which ...
... buried in a brick - built tomb at Abydos , and the ebony plaques found in it prove that in his reign the Egyptians were able to arrange hieroglyphs in such a way as to form sentences with connected meanings . The influence under which ...
Page 29
... buried at Abydos . According to Petrie ( p . 37 ) the tomb building measured 223 by 54 feet , and the chamber that was intended to hold the body was built of stone and measured 17 by 10 by 6 feet . The chambers close by contained vases ...
... buried at Abydos . According to Petrie ( p . 37 ) the tomb building measured 223 by 54 feet , and the chamber that was intended to hold the body was built of stone and measured 17 by 10 by 6 feet . The chambers close by contained vases ...
Contents
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Ḥāpi | 104 |
A LIST OF THE COMMONEST HIEROGLYPHS | 178 |
A LIST OF THE COMMONEST DETERMINATIVES | 194 |
THE MUMMY METHODS OF MUMMIFYING ETC | 203 |
MUMMY LABELS | 214 |
THE CARTONNAGE MUMMYCASE | 221 |
The Two Gods | 327 |
AN EGYPTIAN FUNERAL IN THE DYNASTIC PERIOD | 336 |
mm | 342 |
THE CEREMONY OF THE FOUR BLAZING FLAMES | 351 |
Ast Isis | 362 |
Khensupakharṭ | 365 |
Sekhmit | 371 |
The Ostrich | 388 |
ANOINTING TABLETS And the SEVEN HOLY OILS | 239 |
CHESTS FOR CANOPIC JARS | 245 |
SHAUABTIU OR USHABTIU FIGURES | 251 |
BEADS AND NECKLACES RINGS BRACELETS Armlets ETC | 266 |
THE SCARAB AND THE SCARABAEUS SACER | 280 |
The Vulture of | 312 |
The | 318 |
and Tefnut | 324 |
VESSELS IN Earthenware Stone Glass ETC | 389 |
THE EGYPTIAN SARCOPHAGUS | 420 |
THE HETEP Or Tablet for Sepulchral Offerings | 432 |
FOUNDATION DEPOSITS | 450 |
The Ibis | 454 |
MODELS OF OBJECTS USED AT THE OPEning of the MOUTH | 461 |
DRAUGHTS AND DRAUGHTBOARDS | 474 |
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Common terms and phrases
Abydos alabaster Åmen Amenḥetep amulet ancient Ani's Anubis bandages beetle body Book British Museum bronze Brugsch built buried Cairo called cartouche chamber Champollion Chapter characters coffin colour contains Copt Coptic dead deceased demotic disk Egypt Egyptian Égyptiens embalming example faïence feet figures funerary Gîzah glazed Gnostic goddess gods gold granite Greek Hathor head heart hieratic hieroglyphic Horus Hyksos inches inscribed inscription Isis IVth jars king Kingdom Lepsius linen London Manetho maṣṭabah Memphis monuments mummy Nephthys Nile Nubia obelisk offerings Osiris painted Papyrus Paris Pepi period placed prenomen priests probably Ptaḥ Ptolemy pyramid Pyramid Texts Rameses Rameses II Recension rectangular reign represented Rosetta Stone sarcophagus says scarabs scribe sepulchral Seti side soul stele Sûdân temple Theban Thebes thee Thothmes tomb translation uraeus Usertsen Utchat vases Vignettes VIth wooden words XIIth XIXth XVIIIth dynasty XXVIth δὲ καὶ حة