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dress. It is made of several layers of linen, plaster,
and gum, moulded into the human form, and then gilt.
Within this case was the embalmed body of the per -
son, enveloped in cloths of different textures, some-
times inscribed and sometimes not, according to the
rank of the person or fashion of the period. This
case was usually placed within a wooden sarco-
phagus, highly decorated with significant emblems
and hieroglyphics, and again within one of stone, also
sculptured and inscribed.

25. Two Frames containing fragments of En-
chorial and Greek Papyri.

26. Mummy of a little Girl in its inner
wrappings, many of which are of dyed linen, princi-
pally blue and red, and enclosing tivo folds of papyrus
(see Sketch 26 A) inscribed in the hieratic character.
Over the face and upper part of the chest are the
remains of the linen pasteboard cover, which has the
face gilt. From the style of decoration it is probable
this mummy is of the Greek period. The mummy
as it appears in its inner wrappings is about three
feet six inches long. The above-mentioned pieces of
papyri having been removed from the mummy, and
stretched and mounted, were translated by Mr.
Birch, of the British Museum, as follows ; it is an
address to Osiris, spoken by Haranth a daughter of
the lady of the house Ouer or Ta-ur.

I am the Sun when He rises, I am Turn (or Atum)
when He sets. I am Osiris, who is the dweller of
the West, great god, lord of the East—guard me
(ye) guardians of the gate of the Empyreal region ?
The guardians of the house have opened to me