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THE MUMMY AND COFFIN OF NES-AMSU.
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form, and the greater number of them are traced in
outline. The head-dress is painted a dark green, the
face and ears are gilded, and the eyelids and eyebrows
are inlaid with that kind of blue glass which is charac-
teristic of the period subsequent to the XXVIth
dynasty. Over the forehead is painted a beetle, the
wings of which are extended, and they bend down
round the sides of the face ; above the beetle is shen Q,
the emblem of the circuit of the sun, or eternity. The
beard was broken by the Arabs, but it has now been
repaired. The breast of the mummy is ornamented
with a pectoral painted to imitate rows of lotus and
other flowers, and pointed pendants, etc., hanging
from a bar which is intended to represent inlaid
work; from each end of this bar rises a head of the
hawk of Horus surmounted by a disk painted red
and a urseus tQ.
The space to the right and left of the pectoral and
immediately beneath it is filled with the following :—
i. A kneeling figure of Nut with outstretched wings
and arms, wearing a disk upon her head; in each
hand she holds an ostrich feather ft.
2. The utchat facing to the left ^jp, and the utchat
facing to the right ^^ (these are typical of the two
eyes of the Sun, for the one is the emblem of the Sun
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form, and the greater number of them are traced in
outline. The head-dress is painted a dark green, the
face and ears are gilded, and the eyelids and eyebrows
are inlaid with that kind of blue glass which is charac-
teristic of the period subsequent to the XXVIth
dynasty. Over the forehead is painted a beetle, the
wings of which are extended, and they bend down
round the sides of the face ; above the beetle is shen Q,
the emblem of the circuit of the sun, or eternity. The
beard was broken by the Arabs, but it has now been
repaired. The breast of the mummy is ornamented
with a pectoral painted to imitate rows of lotus and
other flowers, and pointed pendants, etc., hanging
from a bar which is intended to represent inlaid
work; from each end of this bar rises a head of the
hawk of Horus surmounted by a disk painted red
and a urseus tQ.
The space to the right and left of the pectoral and
immediately beneath it is filled with the following :—
i. A kneeling figure of Nut with outstretched wings
and arms, wearing a disk upon her head; in each
hand she holds an ostrich feather ft.
2. The utchat facing to the left ^jp, and the utchat
facing to the right ^^ (these are typical of the two
eyes of the Sun, for the one is the emblem of the Sun