Manual of Egyptian archæology and guide to the study of antiquities in EgyptFor the use of students and travellers . ize, are ranged in the three superposedcornices over the doorway, and the structure iscrowned by uraei drawn up in line. The canopy ofthe Thirteenth Dynasty bed is much less is a sort of wooden balustrade carved and paintedto resemble bundles of reeds, the hotesu pattern em-ployed to decorate the upper part of temple this there is the usual cornice. In the mummycouch of the Gra^^co-Roman period (fig. 295) the sidebalustrade is replaced by crouching fig
Manual of Egyptian archæology and guide to the study of antiquities in EgyptFor the use of students and travellers . ize, are ranged in the three superposedcornices over the doorway, and the structure iscrowned by uraei drawn up in line. The canopy ofthe Thirteenth Dynasty bed is much less is a sort of wooden balustrade carved and paintedto resemble bundles of reeds, the hotesu pattern em-ployed to decorate the upper part of temple this there is the usual cornice. In the mummycouch of the Gra^^co-Roman period (fig. 295) the sidebalustrade is replaced by crouching figures of the FUNERARY CANOPIES. 329 goddess Maat, sculptured and painted, with herfeather in her hand. At the head and foot standIsis and Nephthys, waving their arms fringed withwings. The upper part is in open work, and threevultures hover over the mummy, and kneeling figuresof Isis and Nephthys weep over it. The sledges that conveyed the dead to their tombswere also provided with canopies, but totally differentin appearance. The sledge canopy is also a naos,but with solid sides, similar to those found by me in. Fig. 295.—Mummy-couch with canopy, Graeco-Roman, 1886 in the chamber of Sennetmu. When there wereany openings they were square, and so arranged as toallow the head of the mummy to be seen. Wilkinsondescribes one of these canopies from paintings in aThcban tomb (fig. 296). In all cases the panelscould be removed. When the mummy had beenplaced in the sledge, the panels were replaced andthe curved roof, with its many-coloured cornice, wasshut down, and the whole closed in. Many of the chairs in the British Museum and theLouvre date back to the Eleventh Dynasty, and are 330 THE INDUSTRIAL ARTS.
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