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 ii
... writing , i.e. , hiero- glyphic and demotic , and in Greek ; it enumerates the good works of the king , and orders that additional honours be paid to him and his ancestors . B.M. No. 24 . the king , w ACICO 18 written in two forms.
... writing , i.e. , hiero- glyphic and demotic , and in Greek ; it enumerates the good works of the king , and orders that additional honours be paid to him and his ancestors . B.M. No. 24 . the king , w ACICO 18 written in two forms.
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... writers on Egyptology seem never to have read the facts summarized by Dean Peacock , and therefore repeat the mistake made by their predecessors a century ago . In like manner the valuable service which Lepsius rendered to Champollion's ...
... writers on Egyptology seem never to have read the facts summarized by Dean Peacock , and therefore repeat the mistake made by their predecessors a century ago . In like manner the valuable service which Lepsius rendered to Champollion's ...
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... Writers on Egyptian Hieroglyphs John Tzetzes . Hermapion Clement of Alexandria Horapollo Kircher . Zoega 127 128 133 134 137 138 139 Young and Champollion and their Successors 140 Opinions of Egyptologists on the Labours of Young and Cham-
... Writers on Egyptian Hieroglyphs John Tzetzes . Hermapion Clement of Alexandria Horapollo Kircher . Zoega 127 128 133 134 137 138 139 Young and Champollion and their Successors 140 Opinions of Egyptologists on the Labours of Young and Cham-
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... WRITING : 155 162 163 164 164 Hieroglyphic , Hieratic and Demotic . EGYPTIAN WRITING MATERIALS : 168 Papyrus , Leather , etc. 172 · WRITING IMPLEMENTS : Palette , Reed , Ink - pot and Ink , Scribe's Wrist - rest 173 A LIST OF THE ...
... WRITING : 155 162 163 164 164 Hieroglyphic , Hieratic and Demotic . EGYPTIAN WRITING MATERIALS : 168 Papyrus , Leather , etc. 172 · WRITING IMPLEMENTS : Palette , Reed , Ink - pot and Ink , Scribe's Wrist - rest 173 A LIST OF THE ...
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... , like that of the Assessors in the Judgment Hall of Osiris - twenty - two in Upper and twenty in Lower Egypt . Classical writers give varying numbers . Diodorus , 4 . who says the nome dates from the time 2 THE LAND OF EGYPT.
... , like that of the Assessors in the Judgment Hall of Osiris - twenty - two in Upper and twenty in Lower Egypt . Classical writers give varying numbers . Diodorus , 4 . who says the nome dates from the time 2 THE LAND OF EGYPT.
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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