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APPENDIX.
In presenting this detailed account of the scenes represented,
and the texts, the ellipses have been indicated by dots; and it
will be perceived, that, partly owing to the erasure of several
symbols, and partly owing to the new nature of a portion of the
texts, the whole will not at present admit of a solution. Many
portions, however, contain important notions connected with the
psychology and the mythology of the Egyptians.
The deities, although not precisely the same there as have
charge of the various portions of the body, consist of the principal
forms of the Pantheon; and, as will readily be perceived, utter a
number of addresses relative to the functions which they perform,
or are supposed to perform in the Hades. The prayers around
the sides in the larger bands of hieroglyphics must be sacerdotal
addresses to the deceased, if not invocations of deities — they are
necessarily more obscure in their tenour, partly from referring to
subjects hinted at rather than definitely expressed. The analysis
of them is far from complete ; and it would, at present, be rash to
offer a particular solution of their contents.—Mr. Birch.
Note A.
The coffin of Hapimcn, an officer of the very highest rank, which con-
sists of the chest or lower part of the Sarcophagus, was presented to the
British Government, by the Ottoman Porte, on the evacuation of Egypt
by the French, consequent upon the capitulation of Alexandria, in 1807,
by General Menou. It is of large dark granite, and of the era of the
Psammetici, having probably had a cover of the shape of the sarcopha-
gus of Saotou. On the exterior, are Isis and Nephthys kneeling upon
symbols of resplendence over discs, the four genii of the Amenti; the
two Anubides, or Anuhis; and Hop Hioue Ch., the two symbolic eyes,
&c.; with appropriate invocations, very similar in their tenour to those on
the sarcophagus presented by Colonel Howard Vyse. The interior con-
tains around the various deities, to whom the different parts of the body
are dedicated, with inscriptions before them to that effect, and on the
bottom is a full length, full-face figure, of the goddess Netpe. The
hierologist will perceive, by an inspection, how much the texts of this
important monument illustrate, and are illustrated, by the present of
Colonel Howard Vyse.
APPENDIX.
In presenting this detailed account of the scenes represented,
and the texts, the ellipses have been indicated by dots; and it
will be perceived, that, partly owing to the erasure of several
symbols, and partly owing to the new nature of a portion of the
texts, the whole will not at present admit of a solution. Many
portions, however, contain important notions connected with the
psychology and the mythology of the Egyptians.
The deities, although not precisely the same there as have
charge of the various portions of the body, consist of the principal
forms of the Pantheon; and, as will readily be perceived, utter a
number of addresses relative to the functions which they perform,
or are supposed to perform in the Hades. The prayers around
the sides in the larger bands of hieroglyphics must be sacerdotal
addresses to the deceased, if not invocations of deities — they are
necessarily more obscure in their tenour, partly from referring to
subjects hinted at rather than definitely expressed. The analysis
of them is far from complete ; and it would, at present, be rash to
offer a particular solution of their contents.—Mr. Birch.
Note A.
The coffin of Hapimcn, an officer of the very highest rank, which con-
sists of the chest or lower part of the Sarcophagus, was presented to the
British Government, by the Ottoman Porte, on the evacuation of Egypt
by the French, consequent upon the capitulation of Alexandria, in 1807,
by General Menou. It is of large dark granite, and of the era of the
Psammetici, having probably had a cover of the shape of the sarcopha-
gus of Saotou. On the exterior, are Isis and Nephthys kneeling upon
symbols of resplendence over discs, the four genii of the Amenti; the
two Anubides, or Anuhis; and Hop Hioue Ch., the two symbolic eyes,
&c.; with appropriate invocations, very similar in their tenour to those on
the sarcophagus presented by Colonel Howard Vyse. The interior con-
tains around the various deities, to whom the different parts of the body
are dedicated, with inscriptions before them to that effect, and on the
bottom is a full length, full-face figure, of the goddess Netpe. The
hierologist will perceive, by an inspection, how much the texts of this
important monument illustrate, and are illustrated, by the present of
Colonel Howard Vyse.