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tradictory accounts in Herodotus respecting this town do not
enable us to fix its situation.
On the same wall, near the banks of the river, is represented a
most successful haul of fish, which are afterwards cut up and
dried in the sun ; while others are formed into round balls, and
placed one over the other on some embers. When baked they
are put into the jars and laid by.
In another catacomb, round which are nine statues, is repre-
sented the principal personage clothed in the sacerdotal habit,
without the mitre, in a shelving-roofed building, and holding in
one hand the sceptre and cup. Before him an ral persons
bringing to him ' " ' ^ llL to be sacrificed ; fillets are
round the necks of the victims: and in the next compart-
ment the same person is sitting before the preparations for a feast.
His servants are bringing on stands and tables a quantity of birds,
joints of meat, fruits, besides whole goats and oxen.
Near the descent into the mummy-pits belonging to these ca-
tacombs, where were deposited the mortal remains of those fa-
milies whose successors have in vain called the arts to their assist-
ance to immortalize their memory, is the representation of a door-
way, or the front of a house, of very small dimensions, with the
cornice moulding and architrave as seen in the sacred buildings.
In the centre of it is a niche for a small statue, and above is a
figure tasting some delicate morsel placed before it. These orna-
ments, so common within the precincts of the Domus Exilis
Plutonia, would lead one to suppose, "ere it not contradicted by
the general character, of the Egyptians for temperance, that
they considered their happiness in a future world to be essentially
depending on the gratification of their appetites.
Feb. 3.—Having landed at Erramoum, we walked two miles
along the plain to Melaoui. This is a large and populous town.
Its
tradictory accounts in Herodotus respecting this town do not
enable us to fix its situation.
On the same wall, near the banks of the river, is represented a
most successful haul of fish, which are afterwards cut up and
dried in the sun ; while others are formed into round balls, and
placed one over the other on some embers. When baked they
are put into the jars and laid by.
In another catacomb, round which are nine statues, is repre-
sented the principal personage clothed in the sacerdotal habit,
without the mitre, in a shelving-roofed building, and holding in
one hand the sceptre and cup. Before him an ral persons
bringing to him ' " ' ^ llL to be sacrificed ; fillets are
round the necks of the victims: and in the next compart-
ment the same person is sitting before the preparations for a feast.
His servants are bringing on stands and tables a quantity of birds,
joints of meat, fruits, besides whole goats and oxen.
Near the descent into the mummy-pits belonging to these ca-
tacombs, where were deposited the mortal remains of those fa-
milies whose successors have in vain called the arts to their assist-
ance to immortalize their memory, is the representation of a door-
way, or the front of a house, of very small dimensions, with the
cornice moulding and architrave as seen in the sacred buildings.
In the centre of it is a niche for a small statue, and above is a
figure tasting some delicate morsel placed before it. These orna-
ments, so common within the precincts of the Domus Exilis
Plutonia, would lead one to suppose, "ere it not contradicted by
the general character, of the Egyptians for temperance, that
they considered their happiness in a future world to be essentially
depending on the gratification of their appetites.
Feb. 3.—Having landed at Erramoum, we walked two miles
along the plain to Melaoui. This is a large and populous town.
Its