Catalogue of the Museum and Gallery of Art of the New-York Historical Society, 1893 (1893)
New-York Historical Society. Museum and Gallery of Art, Abbott, Henry · New York : Printed for the Society · leaf 32
of four pieces of limestone, being a portion of the false door-way always found intombs, to render the real entrance to the inner roomin which the bodies were generally placed, moredifficult to be found. Taken from the tomb of a 15 priest in the time of Pharaoh Shapre. The hiero-glyphics are in the… … 1(5 rare—no other Museum possessing a single speci-men. The Egyptians honoured him as an Image of the Soul ofOsiris, and that this soul was supposed to migrate from one Apis Uanother, in succession. His death was a season of general mourning,and his interment was accompanied with the most costly…
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