. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . pp. 149, 150 ; cf. Archéologie égyptienne, p. 138). It was explored afresh, nine years later, byProfessor Petrie, who measured its dimensions with scrupulous exactness (Mtdum, pp. 10, 11). 1 Maspero, Etudes de Mythologie et dArchéologie égyptiennes, vol. i. p. 149. 2 W. Fl. Pétrie, Medum, pl. xxxiii. 11. 8-10, and p. 40. 3 It was discovered by Professor Petrie, Medum. pp. 8-10, pi. iv. ; and Ten Years Digging in Egypt,pp. 140, 151. Mr. Petrie on leaving filled up the place again to protect it from the Arabs andtourists. THE MASTABAS OF MÊDVM. 36
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . pp. 149, 150 ; cf. Archéologie égyptienne, p. 138). It was explored afresh, nine years later, byProfessor Petrie, who measured its dimensions with scrupulous exactness (Mtdum, pp. 10, 11). 1 Maspero, Etudes de Mythologie et dArchéologie égyptiennes, vol. i. p. 149. 2 W. Fl. Pétrie, Medum, pl. xxxiii. 11. 8-10, and p. 40. 3 It was discovered by Professor Petrie, Medum. pp. 8-10, pi. iv. ; and Ten Years Digging in Egypt,pp. 140, 151. Mr. Petrie on leaving filled up the place again to protect it from the Arabs andtourists. THE MASTABAS OF MÊDVM. 361 according to custom, to rest beside him, and thus to form a court for him inthe other world as they had done in this. The menials were buried inroughly made trenches, frequently in the ground merely, without coffinsor sarcophagi. The body was not laid out its whole length on its backin the attitude of repose : it more frequently rested on its left side, the headto the north, the face to the east, the legs bent, the right arm brought up. THE COURT AND THE TWO STELiE OF THE CHAPEL ADJOINING THE PYRAMID OF MÊDÛ against the breast, the left following the outline of the chest and Thepeople who were interred in a posture so different from that with which we arefamiliar in the case of ordinary mummies, belonged to a foreign race, who hadretained in the treatment of their dead the customs of their native Pharaohs often peopled their royal cities with prisoners of war, capturedon the field of battle, or picked up in an expedition through an enemyscountry. Snofrûi peopled his city with men from the Libyan tribes living onthe borders of the Western desert or Monîtû The body having 1 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a sketch by Fl. Petrie, Ten Years Digging in Egypt, p. 141. 2 W. Fl. Petrie, Medum, pp. 21, 22. Many of these mummies were mutilated, some lackinga leg, others an arm or a hand; these were probably workmen who had fallen victims to an a
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