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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... inscription . About A.D. 300 1. Cast of the head of a priestess . XVIIIth dynasty 2. Wooden figure of a handmaiden . XVIIIth dynasty 3. Wooden figure of a temple maiden holding a cat . ( XVIIIth or XIXth dynasty ? ) 4. Wooden figure of ...
... inscription . About A.D. 300 1. Cast of the head of a priestess . XVIIIth dynasty 2. Wooden figure of a handmaiden . XVIIIth dynasty 3. Wooden figure of a temple maiden holding a cat . ( XVIIIth or XIXth dynasty ? ) 4. Wooden figure of ...
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... inscription on a statue of the king states that as SEKHEMUI a result of his fighting in the North , i.e. , Lower Egypt , he slew 47,209 of the enemy , it is clear that Kha - sekhem and Necherophes are one and the same king . His queen ...
... inscription on a statue of the king states that as SEKHEMUI a result of his fighting in the North , i.e. , Lower Egypt , he slew 47,209 of the enemy , it is clear that Kha - sekhem and Necherophes are one and the same king . His queen ...
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... inscription cut on a granite boulder on the Island of Sahil in the First Cataract states that a terrible famine occurred in Egypt in the reign of Tcheser because the Nile ceased to rise for seven years . The statement may be a fact ...
... inscription cut on a granite boulder on the Island of Sahil in the First Cataract states that a terrible famine occurred in Egypt in the reign of Tcheser because the Nile ceased to rise for seven years . The statement may be a fact ...
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... inscription of Thothmes IV , which seems to associate the monument with Khafrā , but the cartouche - if indeed there be one- is broken , and the inscription itself is a " pious fraud " that was composed at a late period by the priests ...
... inscription of Thothmes IV , which seems to associate the monument with Khafrā , but the cartouche - if indeed there be one- is broken , and the inscription itself is a " pious fraud " that was composed at a late period by the priests ...
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... inscription of Khnemuḥetep at Bani Hasan , which shows that Amenemhat was strong , wise and just . Towards the close of his life an attempt was made one night , through the connivance of the palace officials , to murder him , but he ...
... inscription of Khnemuḥetep at Bani Hasan , which shows that Amenemhat was strong , wise and just . Towards the close of his life an attempt was made one night , through the connivance of the palace officials , to murder him , but he ...
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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