Budge, Ernest A. Wallis: Some account of the collection of Egyptian antiquities in the possession of Lady Meux: of Theobalds Park, Waltham Cross (London, 1896)

PREFACE.

Thebes. (4.) The mummy and coffin of
Nes-Amsu, the second prophet of the god
Amsu, and prophet of the god Khonsu at Apu
(the Panopolis of the Greeks, represented to-
day by the modern town of Akhmim in Upper
Egypt), about B.C. 350; they were presented
to Lady Meux in 1886 by the late Walter
Ingram, Esq. The mummy is interesting as
an example of a body carefully preserved by the
use of bitumen ; the coffin is a good specimen
of the work of the funereal craftsman of that
period, and its value is enhanced by its perfect
condition. There is, moreover, every reason for
believing that Nes-Amsu was an ancestor of
Nekau, whose sepulchral stele is preserved in
Lady Meux's Collection (see No. 51). The
designs and colouring and subject matter of the
inscriptions recall the work of a much older
period, and prove that, in spite of the corrupting
influences of the Greek and Persian civilizations,
and the imposition of alien manners and customs
upon Egypt, and the decay which was slowly
undermining her ancient religion, the hand of