The Mummy: Chapters on Egyptian Funereal ArchaeologyUniversity Press, 1894 - 404 pages |
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Page 166
... Scenes painted on the coffin . handsome , and carpenter and artist have expended their best labour upon it ; before Ani was embalmed he was measured for it , and due allowance having been made for the bandages , it fits the mummy ...
... Scenes painted on the coffin . handsome , and carpenter and artist have expended their best labour upon it ; before Ani was embalmed he was measured for it , and due allowance having been made for the bandages , it fits the mummy ...
Page 167
... scenes similar to those on the inner coffin ; the drawing is , however , more free , and the details are fewer . The ... scene of indescribable confusion happens ; every bearer of a burden is anxious to deposit it in one of the boats ...
... scenes similar to those on the inner coffin ; the drawing is , however , more free , and the details are fewer . The ... scene of indescribable confusion happens ; every bearer of a burden is anxious to deposit it in one of the boats ...
Page 168
... scenes drawn from the daily events of his life . As he was a scribe , and therefore no mean artist , we are probably right in assuming that he superintended the painting of many of them himself . Some of the rooms have their walls ...
... scenes drawn from the daily events of his life . As he was a scribe , and therefore no mean artist , we are probably right in assuming that he superintended the painting of many of them himself . Some of the rooms have their walls ...
Page 185
... scenes of the deceased ador- ing the gods and the like . In the period between the XXVIth dynasty and the conquest of Egypt by Alexander , the decoration of mummies reached its highest point , and the ornamentation of the car- tonnage ...
... scenes of the deceased ador- ing the gods and the like . In the period between the XXVIth dynasty and the conquest of Egypt by Alexander , the decoration of mummies reached its highest point , and the ornamentation of the car- tonnage ...
Page 186
... scenes and texts , copied , without any knowledge of their meaning , by an artist who altered them to suit his own fancy or purpose . Græco- Roman About B.C. 100 mummies were very carefully bandaged ; each limb was treated separately ...
... scenes and texts , copied , without any knowledge of their meaning , by an artist who altered them to suit his own fancy or purpose . Græco- Roman About B.C. 100 mummies were very carefully bandaged ; each limb was treated separately ...
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The Mummy: Chapters on Egyptian Funereal Archaeology Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge Limited preview - 1964 |
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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