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" All cats that die are carried to certain sacred houses, where being first embalmed, they are buried in the city of Bubastis. All persons bury their dogs in sacred vaults within their own city ; and ichneumons are buried in the same manner as the dogs... "
Herodotus: A New and Literal Version from the Text of Baehr, with a ... - Page 121
by Herodotus, Henry Cary - 1868 - 613 pages
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The Museum Journal, Volumes 17-18

University of Pennsylvania. University Museum - 1926 - 954 pages
...all the family shave their eyebrows only; but if a dog die, they shave the whole body and head. . . . All persons bury their dogs in sacred vaults within their own city.' If any wine, or corn, or any other necessary of life happened to be in a house when a dog died its...
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Myths & legends of ancient Egypt

Lewis Spence - 1915 - 494 pages
...all the family shave their eyebrows only, but if a dog die they shave their whole body and the head. All cats that die are carried to certain sacred houses,...embalmed, they are buried in the city of Bubastis." The Dog Dogs were held in great honour by the Egyptians, as in the city of Cynopolis, yet strangely...
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