| Description |
xii, 404 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Reprint, with new foreword. Originally published: 2nd ed. Cambridge : University Press, 1894. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Egyptian race and language -- Land of Egypt -- Egyptian chronology -- History of Egypt -- List of Egyptian dynasties and the dates assigned to them by Egyptologists -- List of Noems of upper and lower Egypt -- List of the cartouches of the principal Egyptian kings -- The Rosetta stone -- An Egyptian funeral -- Mummy, methods of mummifying -- Mummy cloth and Akhmim embroderies -- Canopic jars and the inscriptions upon them -- Chests for Canopic jars -- Book of the dead -- Pillows -- Ushabtiu figures -- Ptah-Seker-Ausar figures -- Sepulcharal boxes -- Funeral cones or models of loaves of bread -- Stelae -- Vases -- Objects for the toilet, mirrors, tweezers, hair-pins, combs, fans, Kohl-pots, oils -- Necklaces, rings, bracelets, etc. -- Scarabs - their signification - funeral, ornamental and historica scarabs - texts engraved on scarabs - scarabes of Amenophis III - Phonecian scarabs - scarabs found at Ialysos, Kamiros, Tharros, Arban, Babylon, etc. - scarabes by Gnostics -- Amulets -- Figures of the gods -- Figures of animals, etc., sacred to the gods -- Figures of kings and private persons -- Coffins -- Sarcophagi -- Egyptian tombs -- Egyptian writing materials -- Etyptian writing -- Mummis of animals, reptiles, birds, and fishes -- Cippi of Horus -- Egyptian months, and their names, in Coptic, Greeek and Arabic -- List of common Hieroglyphic characters -- List of common determinatives. |
| Subject |
Egypt -- Antiquities.
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Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Egypt.
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Mummies -- Egypt.
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| ISBN |
0517675803 |
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9780517675809 |
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