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
... body for an indefinite period was suggested to the predynastic Egyptians by the sight of the unchanged forms of their dead after years of interment ( which may have been due to the dryness of the soil , as some have thought ) , or ...
... body for an indefinite period was suggested to the predynastic Egyptians by the sight of the unchanged forms of their dead after years of interment ( which may have been due to the dryness of the soil , as some have thought ) , or ...
Page xix
... body of an Egyptian of the Neolithic Period . The pottery found with him belongs to different periods II 2. Earthenware figure of a youth of the Neolithic Period . This is one of the earliest tomb - figures known . From Khizam in Upper ...
... body of an Egyptian of the Neolithic Period . The pottery found with him belongs to different periods II 2. Earthenware figure of a youth of the Neolithic Period . This is one of the earliest tomb - figures known . From Khizam in Upper ...
Page 8
... bodies of water - fowl hang by his side . The plant worn by the Nile - god of the North was the lotus , and that by the Nile - god of the South the papyrus . Under the New Empire the Vignettes in ... body of an Egyp- tian of the 8 THE NILE.
... bodies of water - fowl hang by his side . The plant worn by the Nile - god of the North was the lotus , and that by the Nile - god of the South the papyrus . Under the New Empire the Vignettes in ... body of an Egyp- tian of the 8 THE NILE.
Page 21
... bodies having been first sun - dried or even smoked , as is the custom still in many parts of Africa . The body was wrapped in a reed mat or skin of an animal , perhaps a gazelle or a bull , and with it were placed pots containing food ...
... bodies having been first sun - dried or even smoked , as is the custom still in many parts of Africa . The body was wrapped in a reed mat or skin of an animal , perhaps a gazelle or a bull , and with it were placed pots containing food ...
Page 29
... body was built of stone and measured 17 by 10 by 6 feet . The chambers close by contained vases in stone and copper , flint and copper weapons , jars of various shapes and sizes , grain , etc. Khā - sekhemui was succeeded by his son ...
... body was built of stone and measured 17 by 10 by 6 feet . The chambers close by contained vases in stone and copper , flint and copper weapons , jars of various shapes and sizes , grain , etc. Khā - sekhemui was succeeded by his son ...
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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