Nicholson, Charles: Aegyptiaca (London, 1891)

12 CATALOGUE OF EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES.

the ritual for the dead, and other significant orna-
ments. All round the upper part of the walls of
the box is a row of snakes—the urseus or cobra, with
the neck erect and inflated, and between each is the
feather of Truth. Below this significative-border,
the walls of the box are divided on each side into
six compartments, not counting one at the head,
immediately over which is the emblem signifying life,
in the place of a snake. This compartment contains
a picture of the buckle or K fastening of the waist,
and on each side is the symbolic eye —and a
figure of the goddess Nephthys, known by the
emblem TT on her head.

The first compartment on the right side of the
mummy case is occupied with the subject of the
deceased, under the form of a headless person, who,
in the place of the head, carries the [1 feather of
Truth, standing before the figure of a hawk, behind
which is Nephthy s. These figures are under a canopy,
supported by the figure ^ called a nilometer. Two
lines of inscription separate this picture from the
next compartment, which occurs about where the
shoulder of the mummy would be. It represents
the same headless person standing before Osiris, who
is seated on his throne holding the crook and flail, f
£\, and wearing the cap of lower Egypt, ^f, adorned

with the two feathers of Truth, Behind the

throne stands a goddess, and between the headless
figure and Osiris is an altar, on which are some
offerings. A single line of inscription separates this
from the next picture, which occurs about the place