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FIVE CLASSES OF MUMMIES DESCRIBED. 53
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which comprised seventy-three pieces has been so
arranged, and is now in the museum of Turin.
The spot, in my opinion, where antiquities ge-
nerally are found the least injured by time, and
the best executed, is in Thebes, more particu-
larly at Necropolis, now called Gourna. The mum-
mies found there are the best, and the best
preserved, that are to be met with; they are of
various forms, embalmed, and enveloped in many
different manners. The designs which adorn the
cases are of variegated colours. There are mum-
mies which have as many as three cases of dif-
ferent shapes, on the lids of which are seen a
great variety of emblems and symbols. As well as
I remember, there are as many as eleven kinds,
not to speak of those which are enveloped with
reeds in form of basket-work, or with palm-leaves,
united and bound together with very slight
cords: this sort is that of the poor Nubians. The
mummies which have two or three cases belong to
the priests and their wives, and they are em-
balmed, according to the observations which I
made during my sojourn in Thebes, in the first
of the following manners:—
In general the embalmment is of five sorts, ex-
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which comprised seventy-three pieces has been so
arranged, and is now in the museum of Turin.
The spot, in my opinion, where antiquities ge-
nerally are found the least injured by time, and
the best executed, is in Thebes, more particu-
larly at Necropolis, now called Gourna. The mum-
mies found there are the best, and the best
preserved, that are to be met with; they are of
various forms, embalmed, and enveloped in many
different manners. The designs which adorn the
cases are of variegated colours. There are mum-
mies which have as many as three cases of dif-
ferent shapes, on the lids of which are seen a
great variety of emblems and symbols. As well as
I remember, there are as many as eleven kinds,
not to speak of those which are enveloped with
reeds in form of basket-work, or with palm-leaves,
united and bound together with very slight
cords: this sort is that of the poor Nubians. The
mummies which have two or three cases belong to
the priests and their wives, and they are em-
balmed, according to the observations which I
made during my sojourn in Thebes, in the first
of the following manners:—
In general the embalmment is of five sorts, ex-