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The alabaster sarcophagus of Oimeneptah I., king of Egypt : now in Sir John Soane's Museum, Lincoln's Inn Fields (1864)

Sharpe, Samuel, 1799-1881, Bonomi, Joseph, 1796-1878 · London : Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green · leaf 44

An illustration from The alabaster sarcophagus of Oimeneptah I., king of Egypt : now in Sir John Soane's Museum, Lincoln's Inn Fields, 1864, leaf 44
showing that it is the soul of a man; theother has not, being the soul of his wife. In the fourth picture wesee the deceased man and his wife, both seated, wdth a table of offeringsset out before them, and a priest presenting fire and water to themas if they were gods. These four pictures, with… … Fk-. 11. it is therefore after sunset, and beneath the earth. It sheds no rays,and it may be contrasted with the sun in the second picture, which shedsnumerous rays. This, which we may suppose is in the heavens over-head, is worshipped by the man and his wife in bodily form, but theformer sun which…

Seti I, King of Egypt · Tombs -- Egypt · Sarcophagi -- Egypt · Alabaster sculpture -- Egypt · Inscriptions, Egyptian

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