. The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments ... Plate XXII.— EGYPTIAN SEPULCHRAL BARGE.(From a wall-painting in an Egyptian tomb. )The mummied bodies of the dead were ferried across the Nile in sepulchral barges to the ceme-teries, which were usually situated on its western bank. The above represents a sepulchral bargecontaining a decorated shrine or canopy, pylon-shaped, in which the mummy is laid. Above theshrine are the professional wailing women, who beat their faces and breasts, and tear their hair andutter Plate XXIV.—THE SOUL REVISITING THE BODY. Vignette from the Pap
. The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments ... Plate XXII.— EGYPTIAN SEPULCHRAL BARGE.(From a wall-painting in an Egyptian tomb. )The mummied bodies of the dead were ferried across the Nile in sepulchral barges to the ceme-teries, which were usually situated on its western bank. The above represents a sepulchral bargecontaining a decorated shrine or canopy, pylon-shaped, in which the mummy is laid. Above theshrine are the professional wailing women, who beat their faces and breasts, and tear their hair andutter Plate XXIV.—THE SOUL REVISITING THE BODY. Vignette from the Papyrus of Ani (or Anna) the Scribe (about B. C. 1400). showing Ani*s soul, in the form of a human-headed bird revisiting the mummied body ,on a bier in the tomb. (British Museum, No. 10,470.) The emblem which it holds in its claws is the shen, symbolizing the suns path in the heavens. In the stands at the head and foot of the bier incense is burning. I- II ii-ti ? i « lis m uU 13& US. lil sill A 2 *° c — «2; •S rt o ° -J £ 0 ■*£ o § ^ bij 4J ■slings * w 1= aa^^rfifv* 5. a -8 bS>>£xo
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