The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . EveryEgyptian was supposed to be acquainted with the formulae, from having learned Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, after Kosellini, Monument! Civili, pi. cxxvi. 4, 5. = Maspero, Etudes de Mythologie, etc., vol. i. p. 274; this whole description is based on the royalmummies of Deir el-Baliari, and some score of other Theban mummies of the XX or XXI dynastydiscovered from 1881 to 1886. At Deir el-Bahart a strip of papyrus was found on the mummies of Pinozmii and Zodphtahau-fonkhfi respectively (Maspero, Les Momies royales, etc., in the Mgmoires d
The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . EveryEgyptian was supposed to be acquainted with the formulae, from having learned Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, after Kosellini, Monument! Civili, pi. cxxvi. 4, 5. = Maspero, Etudes de Mythologie, etc., vol. i. p. 274; this whole description is based on the royalmummies of Deir el-Baliari, and some score of other Theban mummies of the XX or XXI dynastydiscovered from 1881 to 1886. At Deir el-Bahart a strip of papyrus was found on the mummies of Pinozmii and Zodphtahau-fonkhfi respectively (Maspero, Les Momies royales, etc., in the Mgmoires de la Mission Franfaise,vol. i. pp. 572, 573, 574), and inscribed pieces of linen on those of Thfttmosis III. and the PrincessMarStamon (ibid., pp. 539, 548). * This is to be seen from the numerous rubrics inserted in the Booh of the Dead (Lepsitjs, Todten-huch, i. 11. 22-24, xv. 11. 47-49, xviii. 11. 39, 40, Ixx. 1. 3, Ixxii. 11. 9-11, cxxxv. 1. 4, cxxxvi. II. 11-15,cxliv. 11. 31-35, cxli. U. 4-7, clxii. II. 12, 13). THE FUNEliAL OF A lilCIl MAN. .ill. WKAPPING OP THE MUMMY, fNDEU THE DIKECTIOX UP THE MAN OP THE ROLL. them during his lifetime, by which he was to have restored to him the use ofhis limbs, and be protected from the dangers of the worki beyond. These wererepeated to the dead person, however, for greater security, during the pi-ocessof embalming, and the son of the deceased, or the master of the ceremonies,.took care to whisper to the mummy the most mysterious parts, which no livingear might hear with impunity.^ The wrappings having been completed, thedeceased person became aware of his equipment, and enjoyed all the privilegesof the instructed and fortified Manes. He felt himself, both mummy anddouble, now ready for the tomb. Egyptian funerals were not lii<e those to which we are accustomed—muteceremonies, in which sorrow is barely by a furtive tear: noise,sobbings, and wild gestures were their necessary concomitants. Not only wasit customary to hir
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