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 vii
... contain a summary of the history of Egypt , with a list of the cartouches of the principal kings and a series of short chapters , containing such information as would enable the student to use the Catalogue with advantage , and at the ...
... contain a summary of the history of Egypt , with a list of the cartouches of the principal kings and a series of short chapters , containing such information as would enable the student to use the Catalogue with advantage , and at the ...
Page xi
... containing about 194 reproductions ( from specially made photographs ) of typical objects in the British Museum , are given . These objects , as well as those described throughout the book , have been chosen from the National Collection ...
... containing about 194 reproductions ( from specially made photographs ) of typical objects in the British Museum , are given . These objects , as well as those described throughout the book , have been chosen from the National Collection ...
Page 14
... containing 30 days , and its use for magical purposes survived until the beginning of the New Kingdom . The Egyptians found out at a very early period that the true year contained more than 360 days , and in the Pyramid Text of Pepi II ...
... containing 30 days , and its use for magical purposes survived until the beginning of the New Kingdom . The Egyptians found out at a very early period that the true year contained more than 360 days , and in the Pyramid Text of Pepi II ...
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... contain nearly 365 days , i.e. , would be nearly a quarter of a day longer than the vague year . Supposing that the first day of the vague year and the first day of the solar year fell on the same day , 1,461 vague years or 1,460 solar ...
... contain nearly 365 days , i.e. , would be nearly a quarter of a day longer than the vague year . Supposing that the first day of the vague year and the first day of the solar year fell on the same day , 1,461 vague years or 1,460 solar ...
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... containing food of some kind , and flint knives , spear - heads and other weapons to enable the deceased to defend himself against the attacks of foes or savage animals . The neolithic Egyptians worshipped many gods , perhaps totems ...
... containing food of some kind , and flint knives , spear - heads and other weapons to enable the deceased to defend himself against the attacks of foes or savage animals . The neolithic Egyptians worshipped many gods , perhaps totems ...
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