Museum of antiquity; a description of ancient life: the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, palaces, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1883)
Yaggy, Levi W, Haines, T. L. (Thomas Louis), b. 1844 · Alexandria, Va., W.P. Grant & co. · leaf 876
AND SARCOPHAGI. 843 gure of the deceased was represented upon the latter in rehef,like that of the Queen of Amasis 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 OP ALABASTER. {Features of the deceased Scidptured) 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…
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