Manual of Egyptian archæology and guide to the study of antiquities in EgyptFor the use of students and travellers . Fig. The head Mummy-case of Queen, ., ,, r J J Aahmesnefertari. IS a portrait, the face round andbroad, the eyes wanting in intelligence, the expres-sion mild and characterless. Above the heavy 324 THE INDUSTRIAL ARTS. wig are the headdress and stiff feathers of Amonor Mut. It may well be asked what motive the Egyptianscould have had in manufacturing these extraordinaryproductions. Both queens were small women and theirbodies were lost in such huge coffins. They had to bew
Manual of Egyptian archæology and guide to the study of antiquities in EgyptFor the use of students and travellers . Fig. The head Mummy-case of Queen, ., ,, r J J Aahmesnefertari. IS a portrait, the face round andbroad, the eyes wanting in intelligence, the expres-sion mild and characterless. Above the heavy 324 THE INDUSTRIAL ARTS. wig are the headdress and stiff feathers of Amonor Mut. It may well be asked what motive the Egyptianscould have had in manufacturing these extraordinaryproductions. Both queens were small women and theirbodies were lost in such huge coffins. They had to bewedged in and padded with rags to prevent theirrolling about and being injured. Apart from theirsize the coffins are characterised by the same sim-plicity as that which distinguishes all of that period,v/hether of ro}al or private personages. About themiddle of the Nineteenth Dynasty there was a changeof fashion : one single coffin soberly adorned was nolonger sufficient ; it was necessary to have two orthree or even four inside one another, profuselydecorated with paintings or inscriptions. At thistime the oute
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