Museum of antiquity; a description of ancient life: the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, places, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1887)
Yaggy, L. W, Haines, Thomas L · Des Moines, Iowa : G.S. Cline · leaf 864
ND SARCOPHAGI. 843 gure of the deceased was represented upon the latter in rehef,like that ot the Queen of Aniasis in the British Museum; andsome were in the form of a Kings name or oval. Others weremade in the shape of the mummied body, whether of basalt,granite, slate, or limestone, specimens of… … COFFIN OF ALABASTER. (Features of the deceased Sculptured.) Near them were also placed vases and small figures of the de-ceased, of wood or vitrified earthenware. In Sir John Soanesmuseum is the sarcophagus of Seti I. (Menephtha) B. C. 1322,cut out of a single block of Oriental alabaster. It is…
Civilization · Classical antiquities
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