The Mummy: Chapters on Egyptian Funereal ArchaeologyUniversity Press, 1894 - 404 pages |
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Page 180
... pieces of stone and call down curses , that vengeance may come upon him for this crime ; for the Egyptians hold in abomination anyone who wounds or commits an act of violence upon the human body . The embalmers ( TaρixeνTai ) are held ...
... pieces of stone and call down curses , that vengeance may come upon him for this crime ; for the Egyptians hold in abomination anyone who wounds or commits an act of violence upon the human body . The embalmers ( TaρixeνTai ) are held ...
Page 184
... pieces very easily . The limbs are rarely bandaged periods . separately , and the body having been wrapped carelessly in a 1 Budge , History of Alexander the Great , p . 141 . Maspero , Guide du Visiteur au Musée de Boulaq , 1883 , p ...
... pieces very easily . The limbs are rarely bandaged periods . separately , and the body having been wrapped carelessly in a 1 Budge , History of Alexander the Great , p . 141 . Maspero , Guide du Visiteur au Musée de Boulaq , 1883 , p ...
Page 185
... pieces at the slightest touch ; the cavity of the breast is filled with amulets of all kinds , and the green stone scarab inscribed with the XXXth chapter of the Book of the Dead was placed over the heart . At Thebes , during this ...
... pieces at the slightest touch ; the cavity of the breast is filled with amulets of all kinds , and the green stone scarab inscribed with the XXXth chapter of the Book of the Dead was placed over the heart . At Thebes , during this ...
Page 186
... piece of wood , painted with his portrait , over the face of the dead man . The mummies , from this time on to the fourth century , are of little interest , for they become mere bundles ; scenes were painted , athwart and along the ...
... piece of wood , painted with his portrait , over the face of the dead man . The mummies , from this time on to the fourth century , are of little interest , for they become mere bundles ; scenes were painted , athwart and along the ...
Page 188
... piece of silk is sewn on a piece of fine yellow silk which is in turn sewn on a piece of ordinary mummy cloth to strengthen it . Mummies of the Roman period were identified by small wooden labels , of an average size of five inches by ...
... piece of silk is sewn on a piece of fine yellow silk which is in turn sewn on a piece of ordinary mummy cloth to strengthen it . Mummies of the Roman period were identified by small wooden labels , of an average size of five inches by ...
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Akerblad alabaster alphabet Amāsis Amenophis Amenophis III amulet Ani's Anubis bandages beetle Birch bitumen body Book British Museum bronze called Canopic jars cartouche Cham chamber Champollion chapter characters Cheta coffin colour Coptic cover Dead deceased demotic Diodorus disk embalming example faïence feet funereal glazed faïence gods gold Greek hand Hathor head heart hemt Heru hieratic hieroglyphics Horus Hyksos inscribed inscriptions Isis jars king of Egypt l'inscription large number Lepsius letter linen lord Manetho Memphis mummy name and titles Naville Nephthys neter Nubia obelisk ornamented Osiris painted papyrus Paris period Persians placed pollion Ptaḥ Ptolemy pyramid Rameses Rameses II reign represented Rosetta Stone royal Sacy sarcophagus says scarabs scenes scribe sepulchral Seti side sometimes steatite stelæ stele suten t'etta temple Thebes Thothmes tion tombs translation underworld uræus ushabtiu figures vases wearing XIIth XVIIIth dynasty XXVIth dynasty Young δὲ καὶ τὴν τῶν