The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . THE IIOATS (. THE FKIKNUS AXU THE FLNEllAUY FUliNITEUE. light, and slender in shape, and ornamented at bow and stern with a lotus-flowerof metal, which bent back its head gracefully, as if bowed down by its ownweight. A temple-shaped shrine stood in the middle of the boat, adorned with Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from paintiuRs on tlie tomb ofXofirbotpii at Thebos (cf. Wilkinson,Munnere and Cnstnme, 2m\ edit., vol. iii. pi. Ixvii.; Chamfollion, Mwiuments de IJigijpte, pi. clx.\iii. 3 ;, Monunvmii Civili, pi. 1, 2;
The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . THE IIOATS (. THE FKIKNUS AXU THE FLNEllAUY FUliNITEUE. light, and slender in shape, and ornamented at bow and stern with a lotus-flowerof metal, which bent back its head gracefully, as if bowed down by its ownweight. A temple-shaped shrine stood in the middle of the boat, adorned with Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from paintiuRs on tlie tomb ofXofirbotpii at Thebos (cf. Wilkinson,Munnere and Cnstnme, 2m\ edit., vol. iii. pi. Ixvii.; Chamfollion, Mwiuments de IJigijpte, pi. clx.\iii. 3 ;, Monunvmii Civili, pi. 1, 2; , Die Ftulle, etc., pi. xxx.). Drawn by Fuucbcr-fiuilii., from paiutin;,9 on Ibe tomb of Xolirbotpu at Tliebes ; cf Wilkinson,op. cit., vol. iii. pi. Ixvii.: CiiAsiroLLiox, op. cii., pi. clxxii. 2; IIosellini, oj-. rit., pi. cxxx. 1;, op. cit., pi. xxx. 5i(; THE CLOSE OF THE THEBAN A COKNEE OF THE THEBAN NECKOPOLIS.^ bouquets of flowers aud with green palm-branches. The female members ofthe fomily of the deceased, crouched beside the shrine, poured fortli lamen-tations, while two priestesses, representing respectively Isis and Nephthys,took up positions behind to protect the body. The boat containing the femalemourners having taken the funeral barge in tow, the entire flotilla pushed outinto the stream. This was tiie solemn moment of the ceremony—the momentin which the deceased, torn away from his earthly city, was about to set outupon that voyage from which there is no return. The crowds assembled onthe banks of the river hailed the dead with tlieir parting prayers: Mayestthou reach in peace the West from Thebes ! In peace, in peace towards Abydos,mayst thou descend in peace towards Abydos, towards the sea of the West! ^ This crossing of theNile was of special sig-nificance in regard tothe future of the soulof the deceased: it re-presented his pilgrimagetowar
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