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 (1882)
Yaggy, Levi W · Chicago, Western Publishing House; New York, Standard Publishing House; [etc.,etc.] · leaf 862
nner, and the outercases were little ornament-ed; but some preferred theexternal show of rich casesand sarcophagi. Somemummies have been foundwith the face covered by a mask of cloth fitting closelyto it, and overlaid with acoating of composition, sopainted as to resemble thedeceased, and to have… … 842 TOMBS AND CATACOMBS. and legs. No Egyptian is found with the limbs bandaged sepa-rately, as those ot Greek mummies. On the breast was frequentlyplaced a scarabseus in immediate contact with the flesh. Thesescarabsei, when of stone, had their extended wrings made of leador silver. On the…
Haines, Thomas L · Civilization · Classical antiquities
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