Manual of Egyptian archæology and guide to the study of antiquities in Egypt. For the use of students and travellers (1914)
Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916, Johns, Agnes Sophia Griffith, 1859- · New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons; London, H. Grevel and Co. · leaf 204
thecatafalque drawn by oxen.It arrives at the door ; the mummy is placed upright on its feet, receives thefarewells of the family, and undergoes the finalmanipulations necessary to adapt it for its future life(fig. 166). The sacrifice and its preliminaries, fieldlabour, sowing, harvesting, rearing… … Fig. 165.—Plan of unfinishedtomb, Beni Hasan. i;8 TOMBS. were never previously omitted ; but centuries hadelapsed, and in twenty centuries many changes comeabout even in conservative Egypt. We may searchalmost in vain for the herds of gazelles, for under theRamessides these animals were rarely…
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