D'Athanasi, Giovanni; Salt, Henry [Editor]: 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)

56 five classes of mummies described.

idols, all of porcelain. According to the expla-
nation given by M. Champollion, each of the
survivors who accompanied the corpse to its
interment carried an idol, which he deposited in
the case, the priests carrying the larger and the
others the smaller.

The second quality of embalming is as follows:
The material employed is a species of very
bitter wood, which they reduced into very small
particles, and with these filled the whole body
except the head and neck, which were embalmed
with a material composed of resin and gum mastic.
The bitterness of this wood surpasses that of co-
locynth, and prevents the worms from injuring
the mummy. The entrails are well arranged, and
divided into four portions; small wax figures,
representing the four heads of the urns, are enve-
loped together. These lids all differ from one
another; their explanation, if known, would be
highly interesting, and it is very probably con-
tained in the hieroglyphics which adorn them.

The entrails of the dead embalmed after this
manner, are not found in the urns like those of the
first quality, but having 'been divided, in the first
instance, into four portions, they were then enve-
loped in very fine linen and placed beside the dead