DOI Artikel:
Smith, Grafton Elliot: A contribution to the study of mummification in Egypt: with special reference to the measures adopted during the time of the 21st dynasty for moulding the form of the body
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.11325#0042
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moulded into shape and wrapped in linen. That the viscera had
not been dried and were still flexible when the wrapping was
done is obvious from the fact that one end of the linen bandage is
almost always intertwined with—and so fixed to—some part of the
organ wrapped.
The small intestines are usually bent upon themselves a large
number of times so as to form an elongated parcel of parallel
bands. Amongst thèse bands there was often placed (while the
viscus was still flexible) a wax image of one of the four genii—
usually the hawk-headed Khebsenuf. Then the mass was thickly
sprinkled with sawdust and wrapped in a linen bandage. As a
rule a bandage about 5 cm. broad was employed : one end was
intertwined with a coil of intestine and the bandage was then
wound spirally around the cylindrical mass of intestines, then
after two or three longitudinal turns, the whole mass was invested
by a séries of spirals. The end of the bandage remained free ;
and one end of the parcel was then in many cases slightly bent
so that the end of the bandage become caught in the kink (Pis.
XVI, XVII and XVIII).
The liver is usually flexed around its transverse axis so as to
formahollow tube open on one side (Pl. XIII, figure 3, Pl.XVIII
figure 4, and Pl. XVII, figure 1). Either the upper or the lower
surface may form the surface of the tubular cylinder. Inside
the latter a wax statuette—usually the human-headed Amset—
is found in most cases. It was, in other respects, treated like
the intestines. Although either of thèse parcels may be found
in any part of the body-cavity, yet more often than not they are
found in definite situations—the parcel of intestines vertically in
the abdomen against the right wall extending from the iliac fossa
to the right costal margin (Pl. III, figure 1, ^L) and the liver
transversely in the lower part of the thorax (Pl. III, figure 1,-6).
When the various parcels of viscera had been returned to the
moulded into shape and wrapped in linen. That the viscera had
not been dried and were still flexible when the wrapping was
done is obvious from the fact that one end of the linen bandage is
almost always intertwined with—and so fixed to—some part of the
organ wrapped.
The small intestines are usually bent upon themselves a large
number of times so as to form an elongated parcel of parallel
bands. Amongst thèse bands there was often placed (while the
viscus was still flexible) a wax image of one of the four genii—
usually the hawk-headed Khebsenuf. Then the mass was thickly
sprinkled with sawdust and wrapped in a linen bandage. As a
rule a bandage about 5 cm. broad was employed : one end was
intertwined with a coil of intestine and the bandage was then
wound spirally around the cylindrical mass of intestines, then
after two or three longitudinal turns, the whole mass was invested
by a séries of spirals. The end of the bandage remained free ;
and one end of the parcel was then in many cases slightly bent
so that the end of the bandage become caught in the kink (Pis.
XVI, XVII and XVIII).
The liver is usually flexed around its transverse axis so as to
formahollow tube open on one side (Pl. XIII, figure 3, Pl.XVIII
figure 4, and Pl. XVII, figure 1). Either the upper or the lower
surface may form the surface of the tubular cylinder. Inside
the latter a wax statuette—usually the human-headed Amset—
is found in most cases. It was, in other respects, treated like
the intestines. Although either of thèse parcels may be found
in any part of the body-cavity, yet more often than not they are
found in definite situations—the parcel of intestines vertically in
the abdomen against the right wall extending from the iliac fossa
to the right costal margin (Pl. III, figure 1, ^L) and the liver
transversely in the lower part of the thorax (Pl. III, figure 1,-6).
When the various parcels of viscera had been returned to the