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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... king , who was not crowned until the eighth year of his reign . The decree is written in two forms of Egyptian writing , i.e. , hiero- glyphic and demotic , and in Greek ; it enumerates the good works of the king , and orders that ...
... king , who was not crowned until the eighth year of his reign . The decree is written in two forms of Egyptian writing , i.e. , hiero- glyphic and demotic , and in Greek ; it enumerates the good works of the king , and orders that ...
Page xii
... King - Lists and Manetho of Sebennytus . The Sothic Period . Modern Systems of Chronology OUTLINE OF THE HISTORY OF ... Kings . Dynasties XV and XVI The Kings of Upper Egypt expel the Hyksos . Dynasty XVII The New Kingdom . Dynasties ...
... King - Lists and Manetho of Sebennytus . The Sothic Period . Modern Systems of Chronology OUTLINE OF THE HISTORY OF ... Kings . Dynasties XV and XVI The Kings of Upper Egypt expel the Hyksos . Dynasty XVII The New Kingdom . Dynasties ...
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... king took place . " " One of the principal objects of every student of Egyptian Chronology is to find out when the first king of the first dynasty began to reign . The native monuments do not help us in any way , and on this point the ...
... king took place . " " One of the principal objects of every student of Egyptian Chronology is to find out when the first king of the first dynasty began to reign . The native monuments do not help us in any way , and on this point the ...
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... King Lists on the Tablet of Sakkârah , ' the Tablets of Abydos , 2 the Tablet of Karnak , 3 and the King List on papyrus at Turin , gives us any help in this respect . Much useful and quite valuable information on Egyptian Chronology ...
... King Lists on the Tablet of Sakkârah , ' the Tablets of Abydos , 2 the Tablet of Karnak , 3 and the King List on papyrus at Turin , gives us any help in this respect . Much useful and quite valuable information on Egyptian Chronology ...
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... King List and , judging by archaeological evidence , he made the intervals between the VIth and XIIth and between the XIIth and the XVIIIth dynasties too long . The dates that he and others have assigned to the Ist dynasty depend upon ...
... King List and , judging by archaeological evidence , he made the intervals between the VIth and XIIth and between the XIIth and the XVIIIth dynasties too long . The dates that he and others have assigned to the Ist dynasty depend upon ...
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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