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. 1881 Excerpt: ...Institution. 798. Small Mummy Coffin, of sycamore wood. L. 3 ft 10 in. O. C. 799. Mummy Case, of cartonage, with a hieroglyphic dedication to Ra, Turn, Socharis-Osiris, and Anubis, for a lady named Na-sur, daughter of Aneffer, and a singingwoman of the temple of Amen (at Thebes). The mummy is intact within. L. 5 ft. 8 ...
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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. 1881 Excerpt: ...Institution. 798. Small Mummy Coffin, of sycamore wood. L. 3 ft 10 in. O. C. 799. Mummy Case, of cartonage, with a hieroglyphic dedication to Ra, Turn, Socharis-Osiris, and Anubis, for a lady named Na-sur, daughter of Aneffer, and a singingwoman of the temple of Amen (at Thebes). The mummy is intact within. L. 5 ft. 8 in. C. C. 800. Mummy, wrapped in linen, with the bandages wound round it. L. 5 ft. 2 in. C. C. 801. Part of the Cartonage of a Mummy Case of a Female, being a portion of the head and upper portion of the right side. She wears a fillet round the head, a wig, and collar (uskh). On the side is a perpendicular line of hieroglyphs. The name of the deceased is wanting. L. 2 ft. 11 in.; D. 13 in. C. C. sculptor has left out the final hieroglyph, and put it below. The whole style of the monument is very rude, but the figures are in good proportion. "Shery was "Neter Hon Senta," priest of the divinity of Senta, according to the Ashmolean monument. 802. Part of the Cartonage of the back of a Mummy Case, with the following subjects one below the other: r. Isis kneeling and lamenting; 2. a hawk mummied, and symbolic eye; 3. a snake-headed and crocodile-headed (?) deity, with scourge and crook; 4. Thoueris, hippopotamus-headed; 5. Khnum, ram-headed; 6. Anubis, jackal-headed. L. 4 ft.; D. 7 in. C. C. 803. Fragment of a fine Mummy Case, of wood; about the period of the XXth dynasty, many of the ornaments being in relief. The head has a fillet, and lotusleaves, and ear-rings; a net collar is around the neck. Below is a ram-headed scarabaus, flying. The arms (now lost) were crossed, and had rich bracelets, on one of which is represented a boat, with the winged scarabaeus, pushing forward a disk, between two symbolic eyes. Below, a ramheaded scar...
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