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
... length to contain a summary of the history of Egypt , with a list of the cartouches of the principal kings and a series of short chapters , containing such information as would enable the student to use the Catalogue with advantage ...
... length to contain a summary of the history of Egypt , with a list of the cartouches of the principal kings and a series of short chapters , containing such information as would enable the student to use the Catalogue with advantage ...
Page 8
... length of the Nile is about 3,470 miles.1 1 For a good account of the discovery of the Nile see Johnston , H. , The Nile Quest . On the Nile generally see Sir W. Garstin's great Report on the Lake Area , etc. , and Lyons , Physiography ...
... length of the Nile is about 3,470 miles.1 1 For a good account of the discovery of the Nile see Johnston , H. , The Nile Quest . On the Nile generally see Sir W. Garstin's great Report on the Lake Area , etc. , and Lyons , Physiography ...
Page 12
... length of the period during which they reigned is unknown ; some think that the evidence that can be deduced from the Stele justifies them in stating that the reigns of the kings of the first three dynasties occupied a period of 500 ...
... length of the period during which they reigned is unknown ; some think that the evidence that can be deduced from the Stele justifies them in stating that the reigns of the kings of the first three dynasties occupied a period of 500 ...
Page 13
... lengths of their reigns and the sum total of the years of each dynasty . It is the fashion for some to decry the work of Manetho , because his figures have been garbled by generations of copyists , but without it the King Lists of ...
... lengths of their reigns and the sum total of the years of each dynasty . It is the fashion for some to decry the work of Manetho , because his figures have been garbled by generations of copyists , but without it the King Lists of ...
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... length of the period of dynastic civilization can be obtained from the monuments , but the data do not exist from which to make a detailed scheme of chronology . Some of the modern writers on the subject , more notably Meyer , think ...
... length of the period of dynastic civilization can be obtained from the monuments , but the data do not exist from which to make a detailed scheme of chronology . Some of the modern writers on the subject , more notably Meyer , think ...
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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