The Mummy: A Handbook of Egyptian Funerary ArchaeologyUniversity Press, 1925 - 513 pages A discussion of funerary procedures in ancient Egypt, covering mummification, burial practices, ritual texts, tombs and coffins, and other topics, and including background on Egyptian history and religion, a chart of the hieroglyphic alphabet, and other resources. |
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Page vii
... Museum commissioned me to make a Catalogue1 of the Egyptian Antiquities preserved in that Institution . When the ... British Museum . I therefore added many paragraphs on the amulets and other objects which formed the equipment of ...
... Museum commissioned me to make a Catalogue1 of the Egyptian Antiquities preserved in that Institution . When the ... British Museum . I therefore added many paragraphs on the amulets and other objects which formed the equipment of ...
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... British Museum I kept a list of all the reasonable questions put to me by members of the public , who were seeking information about Egyptian " anticas " either as collectors or as students of Egyptology . Many of these I answered in ...
... British Museum I kept a list of all the reasonable questions put to me by members of the public , who were seeking information about Egyptian " anticas " either as collectors or as students of Egyptology . Many of these I answered in ...
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... British Museum , are given . These objects , as well as those described throughout the book , have been chosen from the National Collection , because the British Museum is open to the public for several hours daily , to say nothing of ...
... British Museum , are given . These objects , as well as those described throughout the book , have been chosen from the National Collection , because the British Museum is open to the public for several hours daily , to say nothing of ...
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... British Museum , which when dredged up were assigned to a period several thousand years B.C. , are now known to belong to the Saïte or Ptolemaïc Period . In early dynastic times Egypt was that portion of the Nile Valley that lay between ...
... British Museum , which when dredged up were assigned to a period several thousand years B.C. , are now known to belong to the Saïte or Ptolemaïc Period . In early dynastic times Egypt was that portion of the Nile Valley that lay between ...
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... British Museum ( South Eg . Gallery , No. 766 ) . He is represented in the form of a man with a woman's breast , and wearing a cluster of water plants on his head . He carries in front of him an offering table loaded with food and drink ...
... British Museum ( South Eg . Gallery , No. 766 ) . He is represented in the form of a man with a woman's breast , and wearing a cluster of water plants on his head . He carries in front of him an offering table loaded with food and drink ...
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Abydos Åkerblad alphabet Åmen Amenḥetep amulet ancient Ani's Anubis bandages beetle body Book British Museum bronze Brugsch buried called cartouche chamber Champollion Chapter characters coffin colour contains Copt Coptic dead deceased demotic disk Egyptian Égyptiens embalming example faïence feet figures funerary glazed Gnostic goddess gods gold granite Greek Hathor head heart hieratic hieroglyphic Horus Hyksos inches inscribed inscription Isis jars king Kingdom Lepsius linen London Lower Egypt Manetho Maspero maṣṭabah Memphis monuments mummy Nephthys Nile Nubia obelisk Osiris painted Papyrus Paris Pepi period placed prenomen priests probably Ptaḥ Ptolemy pyramid Rameses Rameses II Recension rectangular reign represented Rosetta Stone Saïte sarcophagus says scarabs scribe Seti Shabti side stele Sûdân temple Theban Thebes thee Thothmes tomb translation Upper Egypt uraeus Usertsen Utchat vases Vignettes VIth wearing wooden words XIIth XIXth XVIIIth dynasty XXVIth δὲ καὶ