. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . OHAMBEK AMD SAKCOPHAGTJS OF AN APIS. embalmed, was sealed up in a coffin or sarcophagus ofhard stone, the mouth of the vault was then waUed up,and against the fresh masonry, at the foot of the neigh-bouring rocks, on the very floor of the passage, or * Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from an engraving published in Mariette. 356 THE MEDES AND THE SECOND CHALDEAN EMPIRE wherever there was a clear space available, the highdignitaries, the workmen or the priests who had takenany part in the ceremonial, set up a votive stele callingdown upon thems
. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . OHAMBEK AMD SAKCOPHAGTJS OF AN APIS. embalmed, was sealed up in a coffin or sarcophagus ofhard stone, the mouth of the vault was then waUed up,and against the fresh masonry, at the foot of the neigh-bouring rocks, on the very floor of the passage, or * Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from an engraving published in Mariette. 356 THE MEDES AND THE SECOND CHALDEAN EMPIRE wherever there was a clear space available, the highdignitaries, the workmen or the priests who had takenany part in the ceremonial, set up a votive stele callingdown upon themselves and their families divine benedic-tions. The gallery was transformed by degrees into a. THE GKEAT GALLERY OF THE SBEAPEUM. kind of record-office, where each dynasty in turn recordedits name, whenever a fresh apotheosis afforded them theopportunity: these records were discovered in our owntime by Mariette, almost perfect in spite of the destroyinghand of men, and comprised inscriptions by the Bubastites,by Bocchoris, and even by the Ethiopians. Taharqa,when menaced by the Assyrians, had stayed at Memphis, ^ Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from an engraving of Dev^ria. A THOROUGH RESTORATION 357 only a year before his death, in the interval between twocampaigns, in order to bury an Apis, and Psammetichuslikewise took care not to neglect this part of his regalduties. He at first was content to imitate his predecessors,but a subsidence having occurred in that part of theSerapeum where the Apis who had died in the twentiethyear of his reign reposed, he ordered his engineers to boreanother gallery in a harder vein of limestone, and he per-formed the opening ceremony in his fifty-secon
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