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
... Egyptian Antiquities preserved in that Institution . When the Catalogue was printed , Professor Middleton and Professor Robertson Smith were of the opinion that the detailed descriptions of the antiquities should be prefaced by an ...
... Egyptian Antiquities preserved in that Institution . When the Catalogue was printed , Professor Middleton and Professor Robertson Smith were of the opinion that the detailed descriptions of the antiquities should be prefaced by an ...
Page viii
... Egyptians for a period of about 5000 years . The papyri 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 ...
... Egyptians for a period of about 5000 years . The papyri 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 ...
Page ix
... Egyptian civilizations were related intimately and were derived from a common source , we must place the beginnings of the dynastic civilization of Egypt in the later rather than the earlier centuries of the fourth millennium before ...
... Egyptian civilizations were related intimately and were derived from a common source , we must place the beginnings of the dynastic civilization of Egypt in the later rather than the earlier centuries of the fourth millennium before ...
Page xi
... Egypt . Mr. E. Bell's Architecture of Ancient Egypt , London , 1924 , affords much solid information about Egyptian Architecture , and forms a useful introduction to Capart's great work L'Art Égyptien , of which the first volume has ...
... Egypt . Mr. E. Bell's Architecture of Ancient Egypt , London , 1924 , affords much solid information about Egyptian Architecture , and forms a useful introduction to Capart's great work L'Art Égyptien , of which the first volume has ...
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... Egypt and ITS DIVISIONS : Upper Egypt , Lower Egypt , the Heptanomis , the Oases , etc. THE NOMES OF EGYPT : Upper Egypt . Lower Egypt . Districts of Nubia . THE NILE AND THE ANNUAL INUNDATION THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS , THE LIBYANS , HAMITES , ...
... Egypt and ITS DIVISIONS : Upper Egypt , Lower Egypt , the Heptanomis , the Oases , etc. THE NOMES OF EGYPT : Upper Egypt . Lower Egypt . Districts of Nubia . THE NILE AND THE ANNUAL INUNDATION THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS , THE LIBYANS , HAMITES , ...
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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