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
... chapters , containing such information as would enable the student to use the Catalogue with advantage , and at the same time acquire the principal facts concerning Egyptian funerary archaeology . As a result of the suggestions as to ...
... chapters , containing such information as would enable the student to use the Catalogue with advantage , and at the same time acquire the principal facts concerning Egyptian funerary archaeology . As a result of the suggestions as to ...
Page viii
... Chapters on Egyptian funereal Archaeology . The book was pub- lished by the University Press , Cambridge , in the early autumn of 1893. The first edition was exhausted in a few months , and a reprint was issued in the following winter ...
... Chapters on Egyptian funereal Archaeology . The book was pub- lished by the University Press , Cambridge , in the early autumn of 1893. The first edition was exhausted in a few months , and a reprint was issued in the following winter ...
Page ix
... Chapter on the Rosetta Stone has been reprinted with a few additions , for a handy summary of the facts connected with the history of the decipherment of the Egyptian hieroglyphs is as necessary now as when the Chapter was written . The ...
... Chapter on the Rosetta Stone has been reprinted with a few additions , for a handy summary of the facts connected with the history of the decipherment of the Egyptian hieroglyphs is as necessary now as when the Chapter was written . The ...
Page xx
... Chapters of the Book of the Dead , with Vignettes of the Islands of the Blest , and the " false door " from a coffin found at Al - Barshah . XIth or XIIth dynasty · • • XVI 1. The Weighing of the Heart . From the Papyrus of Ani · 2 ...
... Chapters of the Book of the Dead , with Vignettes of the Islands of the Blest , and the " false door " from a coffin found at Al - Barshah . XIth or XIIth dynasty · • • XVI 1. The Weighing of the Heart . From the Papyrus of Ani · 2 ...
Page 26
... Chapters of the Book of the Dead ( LXIV ) is assigned to the period of his reign ( Brit . Mus . Papyrus of Nu , sheet 13 ; Lepsius , Todtenbuch , pl . 53 ; Naville , Todtenbuch , Vol . II , p . 139 ; Budge , Chapters of Coming Forth by ...
... Chapters of the Book of the Dead ( LXIV ) is assigned to the period of his reign ( Brit . Mus . Papyrus of Nu , sheet 13 ; Lepsius , Todtenbuch , pl . 53 ; Naville , Todtenbuch , Vol . II , p . 139 ; Budge , Chapters of Coming Forth by ...
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