D'Athanasi, Giovanni; Salt, Henry [Hrsg.]: A brief account of the researches and discoveries in Upper Egypt: To which is added a detailed catalogue of Mr. Salts collection of Egyptian antiquities (London, 1836)

54 five classes of mummies described.

elusive of bodies which have been simply dried in
the sun and deprived of their entrails, without
being in any way covered over with cloths or cere-
ments. Of the first quality of mummies, are
those which are embalmed with a good black
balm, composed, I believe, of various aromatics;
they have all the interior parts, such as the head,
filled with this balm. The mummies of this qua-
lity have all their bandages so well glued over,
that it is with difficulty the flesh of the body can
be uncovered. The entrails of this sort of mummy
are divided into four portions, and deposited in
urns made for the purpose, of four different shapes,
surmounted with lids. These are known by the
name of the canopi; they are generally made of
oriental alabaster, and are respectively ornamented
with the heads of a man, an ape, a jackal, and a
hawk, besides hieroglyphic letters and titles.
Sometimes these urns are found in a square case,
placed by the side of the mummy; and though
generally of alabaster, they are occasionally met
with of calcareous stone, and wood.—(See Cata-
logue. Nos. 24, & 805.) It is in these urns that the
papyri, with the hieratic writings and the little
figures, are inclosed. In this sort of mummy^papyn
with hieroglyphic characters are very seldom met