This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...no connection with the family, by which some specified land or groperty was made over to them. In return they undertook to provide the offerings to the deceased, To perform the prescribed ceremonies, and to guard the tomb carefully. These mortuary priests thus formed a colony at the great tombs, with settled orders, of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...no connection with the family, by which some specified land or groperty was made over to them. In return they undertook to provide the offerings to the deceased, To perform the prescribed ceremonies, and to guard the tomb carefully. These mortuary priests thus formed a colony at the great tombs, with settled orders, of varying ranks, and with regulations of their own. It can easily be imagined that this custom introduced by the great nobles would soon spread among people of more moderate means. A man who himself was only a mortuary priest has left behind a tablet1 on which he recounts the various persons whom he has provided for his daughter's grave. If we may infer his pecuniary circumstances from the roughness of this inscription, it would not be possible for him to have made such ample provision. Possibly the king came to his aid in this matter, as he often did in the Old Kingdom. This interposition of the king was of so remarkable a character that we cannot well pass it over. In the upper classes of Egyptian society, which principally subsisted on the favour of the Pharaoh, and at Court ate what was excellent, that he gave? it naturally came to pass that on application to the king deserving persons would be assisted in founding and supporting their graves. We frequently hear of such cases; in one instance the king entirely provides for the construction of the tomb, for another (his physician) he gives at least the false door,3 for a third he orders a stone sarcophagus to be provided,1 and yet another hopes that in his grave the mortuary offering will be supplied from the granaries, from the treasuries, from the workshops of the royal jewellery... and from every place of the Court from which an offering to the dead shall be provided.6 What was done in iso..
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