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 219
below the stately tombs of their feudallords. The poor subsisted very well without all that wasconsidered necessary for the great and wealthy. They 19:^ TOMBS. were buried wherever it could be done most cheaply,in old tombs that had been robbed or abandoned, innatural fissures of the mountains, in… … Fig. 171.—Wooden model ot sailing boat and crew. Round the cabinhang the weapons and shield required by the deceased in thefuture life. Beni Hasan, Twelfth Dynasty, Ashmolean Museum. The funeral rites over, the attendants shovelled athin covering over the corpses collected during theday, sometimes…
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