Institut Egyptien <al-Qāhira> [Hrsg.]: Mémoires présentés à l'Institut Egyptien (5.1908)

DESCRIPTION OF THE PLATES

Plate I.

Figure 1.—The right half of the head of a mummy of the 21st dynasty,

which was divided into two by a mesial sagittal section.

A probe has been placed in the artificially made passage from the

nose into the cranium. An accumulation of resin is seen in the back

of the cranial cavity.
Figure 2.—The front part of the floor of the cranial cavity of another

mummy to show the ovoid opening made in the roof of the nasal fossae

and the resin-smeared track leading back from it.
Figure 3.—The head of a mummy split in the mesial plane, and the right

half turned up. A probe is placed in the passage made by the embalmer.

The cranial cavity is filled with a large quantity of resin and linen

bandages packed among the membranes of the brain and even the

remains of the brain itself.

Plate II.

Figure 1.—The mummy of a Priest of Ammon (21st dynasty) after the

removal of ail the wrappings.
Figure 2.—The same mummy, after the anterior abdominal wall had been

removed to show the sawdust packing of the body cavity.
Figure 3.—The saine mummy. The sawdust has been removed from the

abdominal cavity, but left in the thoracic cavity, which has been

opened by removing the anterior wall of the chest.

Three parcels of viscera (wrapped in linen) are exposed—one (A) in

the abdomen, aud two (B and C) in the thorax. At D is seen packing

material pushed between the skin and the thoracic wall from the

shoulder incision.

The embalming wound in the left flank can be seen now.