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one funeral procession hero, the dancing was more clearly ex-
pressed, and the attitudes more varied ; men and women mixing
in the dance, and all showing great activity. In another the
mummy or mummy chest is drawn in a shelving-roofed building
painted with blue stripes : behind it are all the instruments of
embalming, among which are the knife and hook ; before them
stands an operator just going to begin upon a subject stuck up
against the wall. Over one of the mummy pits or graves, which
are sunk within the sepulchral chamber, is the figure of Osiris,
clothed in white and mitred, holding before him the flagellum
and crook ; he is sealed in a shelving-roofed building, and is re-
ceiving offerings. Close to this are three groups of people, also
in white, who arc evidently praying, some lifting up their hands,
either kneeling or on foot; others, on their knees, touch the ground
with their faces, exhibiting the precise attitude and character of
the modern Mussulman when he is reciting the Natnaz. Behind
these arc others bringing offerings of jars, a bull's head, and
children.
Jn the feasts the company sit as usual in rows, each with a lo-
tus-flower or nosegay in one hand, while the servants bring them
dishes from the table in the middle:—the more distinguished
guests are seated in pairs on small sophas distinct from the rest.
At one of the feasts is a band of music, composed of two harps
each with eight strings, a double flute, and a lyre, which last is
played with the fingers. Another concert consists of one harp
with twenty strings, and a kind of mandoline, which is played
with a small pin or plectrum. In a third concert are three" harps,
severally with four, nine, and eleven strings.
An agricultural scene is observable in one grotto, with nearly
the same details as at Elcithias: there is likewise the same repre-
sentation of a farmyard and stock of a rich landed proprietor
y 2 and
one funeral procession hero, the dancing was more clearly ex-
pressed, and the attitudes more varied ; men and women mixing
in the dance, and all showing great activity. In another the
mummy or mummy chest is drawn in a shelving-roofed building
painted with blue stripes : behind it are all the instruments of
embalming, among which are the knife and hook ; before them
stands an operator just going to begin upon a subject stuck up
against the wall. Over one of the mummy pits or graves, which
are sunk within the sepulchral chamber, is the figure of Osiris,
clothed in white and mitred, holding before him the flagellum
and crook ; he is sealed in a shelving-roofed building, and is re-
ceiving offerings. Close to this are three groups of people, also
in white, who arc evidently praying, some lifting up their hands,
either kneeling or on foot; others, on their knees, touch the ground
with their faces, exhibiting the precise attitude and character of
the modern Mussulman when he is reciting the Natnaz. Behind
these arc others bringing offerings of jars, a bull's head, and
children.
Jn the feasts the company sit as usual in rows, each with a lo-
tus-flower or nosegay in one hand, while the servants bring them
dishes from the table in the middle:—the more distinguished
guests are seated in pairs on small sophas distinct from the rest.
At one of the feasts is a band of music, composed of two harps
each with eight strings, a double flute, and a lyre, which last is
played with the fingers. Another concert consists of one harp
with twenty strings, and a kind of mandoline, which is played
with a small pin or plectrum. In a third concert are three" harps,
severally with four, nine, and eleven strings.
An agricultural scene is observable in one grotto, with nearly
the same details as at Elcithias: there is likewise the same repre-
sentation of a farmyard and stock of a rich landed proprietor
y 2 and