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16 catalogue of egyptian antiquities.
one of whom it is said, " Egypt shall gather them
up, Memphis shall bury them." Hos. ix, 6.
The contents of the cranium were removed
through the nostrils by breaking up the ethmoid
bone, and that of the great cavities of the body
through an incision in the left side. Then, as it
would appear in this class of mummy, the whole
body was immersed in bitumen, or pitch liquified at
a very high temperature, and afterwards suffered to
drain off, the body being placed horizontally on its
back.
33. Fragment of the Pasteboard Canvas
Covering of the Mummy of a Female.—The
face is gilt, and the hair painted blue.
34. A coarse Terra-cotta Vase of a globular
form, 0, such as are seen in the hands of the king-
in making offerings to the gods, and in hieroglyphic
inscriptions. The prenornen of Thothmosis III,
b.c. 1500. is impressed on this vase in rudely
executed hieroglyphics. The vase is 5§ inches high.
35. Coarse Terra-cotta Vase, containing the
mummy of an Ibis from the Ibis pits at Sakkara.
The cover has never been removed, for the ancient
plaster is unbroken.
36. Ditto, from the same locality, but opened.
37. A Canopic Vase, with human head cover,
and five lines of hieroglyphics, perfectly distinct,
placed vertically. It is in oriental alabaster, a hard
and beautifully water-marked limestone, found in
great abundance in the margin of the desert on the
eastern side of the Nile, about a hundred miles
one of whom it is said, " Egypt shall gather them
up, Memphis shall bury them." Hos. ix, 6.
The contents of the cranium were removed
through the nostrils by breaking up the ethmoid
bone, and that of the great cavities of the body
through an incision in the left side. Then, as it
would appear in this class of mummy, the whole
body was immersed in bitumen, or pitch liquified at
a very high temperature, and afterwards suffered to
drain off, the body being placed horizontally on its
back.
33. Fragment of the Pasteboard Canvas
Covering of the Mummy of a Female.—The
face is gilt, and the hair painted blue.
34. A coarse Terra-cotta Vase of a globular
form, 0, such as are seen in the hands of the king-
in making offerings to the gods, and in hieroglyphic
inscriptions. The prenornen of Thothmosis III,
b.c. 1500. is impressed on this vase in rudely
executed hieroglyphics. The vase is 5§ inches high.
35. Coarse Terra-cotta Vase, containing the
mummy of an Ibis from the Ibis pits at Sakkara.
The cover has never been removed, for the ancient
plaster is unbroken.
36. Ditto, from the same locality, but opened.
37. A Canopic Vase, with human head cover,
and five lines of hieroglyphics, perfectly distinct,
placed vertically. It is in oriental alabaster, a hard
and beautifully water-marked limestone, found in
great abundance in the margin of the desert on the
eastern side of the Nile, about a hundred miles