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
... dead after years of interment ( which may have been due to the dryness of the soil , as some have thought ) , or whether they wrapped it in skins of beasts or reed mats , or , in dynastic times , embalmed it as the result of their ...
... dead after years of interment ( which may have been due to the dryness of the soil , as some have thought ) , or whether they wrapped it in skins of beasts or reed mats , or , in dynastic times , embalmed it as the result of their ...
Page viii
... dead , the predominant feature of which was the preservation of the mummy , that we owe most of our know- ledge of the Egyptians for a period of about 5000 years . The papyri buried with mummies instruct us concerning the Egyptian ...
... dead , the predominant feature of which was the preservation of the mummy , that we owe most of our know- ledge of the Egyptians for a period of about 5000 years . The papyri buried with mummies instruct us concerning the Egyptian ...
Page xiii
... Dead : 222 223 224 Pyramid Texts Texts on Coffins of the Middle Kingdom · Saïte Recension 226 227 Theban Recension and its Publication · Demotic Books of the Dead ANOINTING Tablets and the Seven HOLY OILS . THE VASES OF THE FOUR SONS OF ...
... Dead : 222 223 224 Pyramid Texts Texts on Coffins of the Middle Kingdom · Saïte Recension 226 227 Theban Recension and its Publication · Demotic Books of the Dead ANOINTING Tablets and the Seven HOLY OILS . THE VASES OF THE FOUR SONS OF ...
Page xx
... 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. Horus introducing Ani into 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. Horus introducing Ani into the ...
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... Dead suggest that among some primitive Egyptians the bodies of the dead were sometimes dismembered , sometimes decapitated and sometimes burnt . In pre - dynastic times the dead were buried in the pre- natal position on their left sides ...
... Dead suggest that among some primitive Egyptians the bodies of the dead were sometimes dismembered , sometimes decapitated and sometimes burnt . In pre - dynastic times the dead were buried in the pre- natal position on their left sides ...
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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