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 42
... standing , and is 65 feet high.2 He sent an expedition into Nubia under the leadership of Ameni , who was buried at Bani- Ḥasan , and the great chiefs of Elephantine who owned the caravans that traded between their town and the South ...
... standing , and is 65 feet high.2 He sent an expedition into Nubia under the leadership of Ameni , who was buried at Bani- Ḥasan , and the great chiefs of Elephantine who owned the caravans that traded between their town and the South ...
Page 53
... on one occasion he saved the king's life by cutting off the trunk www 11 ල 00 , side by side with www Р 1 One of these is still standing . and of an elephant which was attacking him . The account OUTLINE OF THE HISTORY OF EGYPT 53.
... on one occasion he saved the king's life by cutting off the trunk www 11 ල 00 , side by side with www Р 1 One of these is still standing . and of an elephant which was attacking him . The account OUTLINE OF THE HISTORY OF EGYPT 53.
Page 134
... standing up , three palms ' length was cut from the base . The texts have been published by Kircher , Oedipus Aegyptiacus , tom . III , p . 213 ; by Ungarelli , Interpretatio Obelis- corum Urbis , Rome , 1842 , p . 65 sqq . , plate 2 ...
... standing up , three palms ' length was cut from the base . The texts have been published by Kircher , Oedipus Aegyptiacus , tom . III , p . 213 ; by Ungarelli , Interpretatio Obelis- corum Urbis , Rome , 1842 , p . 65 sqq . , plate 2 ...
Page 174
... standing before Osiris with both hands raised in adoration ; behind Osiris stand a goddess ( Maat , or Isis ? ) and a dog - headed god , wearing the lunar horns and disk , , who is the representative of Thoth . The inscription , which ...
... standing before Osiris with both hands raised in adoration ; behind Osiris stand a goddess ( Maat , or Isis ? ) and a dog - headed god , wearing the lunar horns and disk , , who is the representative of Thoth . The inscription , which ...
Page 241
... standing in the mummy chamber , one at each corner ; the inscriptions which refer to them read : - " " 1. 7 mb I. ה metch A ै Says www END & Åsår 142 ån Mestå nuk Mestå sa - k Mestà , " I am Mestà son thy , O Osiris . www www - i å un ...
... standing in the mummy chamber , one at each corner ; the inscriptions which refer to them read : - " " 1. 7 mb I. ה metch A ै Says www END & Åsår 142 ån Mestå nuk Mestå sa - k Mestà , " I am Mestà son thy , O Osiris . www www - i å un ...
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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