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CONTENTS.
Page
Opening of one with Frescoes of a House and Grounds . . 146
Another showing the "Wall Subjects in Process of being drawn . 147
Tombs consisting of horizontal Tunnels.....149
Contents of one discovered near Der-el-Bahree .... 150
Of another opened at the Foot of El Shekh Abd-cl-Goornek . ib.
Pit Tombs . . . ,. ... . . .152
Condition in which many of them were found . 153
Relics from some behind the Memnonium . . . ' . . 154
Miniature Coffin from one at the Foot of El Shekh Abd-el-Goorneh 156
Contents of another near El Assasseef ..... 158
Painted Amphora . . . . . . . . .160
Tablets and wooden Dolls......• . 161
Bows, Arrows, Clubs . . . . . . . . 163
Small Tombs in the Valley of Der-el-Medeeneh and their Contents 165
Account of a large Shaft Tomb opened at Geezeh . . . 167
Excavations near the Sphinx.......169
Description of two Tombs there met with . . . .170
Their Contents unlike Egyptian Deposits.....172
Skull recovered from one of them — its Fate .... 174
CHAPTER VII.
OX THE THEORIES EXPLANATORY OP EGYPTIAN SEPULTURE.
Egyptian Burial Customs psychologically a Subject of Interest . 175
The possible Sources of Enlightenment as to their Development ib.
How far we may be guided by Inductions from the Relics . .177
Nature of the Connexion between Customs and Motives . .178
Its Intricacy from the Relations of Man to the Physical World . 179
General Bearings of the Question in Systems of Human Progres-
sion ........... 180
Inquiry as to Laws applicable to Man's Procedure . . .181
Erroneous Results of Deductions merely from broad Proposi-
tions ...........183
Effects of Individuality and of Race must bo also considered . 185
This general Discussion illustrative of the special Subjects of this
Chapter..........186
Lepsius' Hypothesis with Regard to the Size of the Pyramids . 187
Evidence of its Unsoundness.......188
CONTENTS.
Page
Opening of one with Frescoes of a House and Grounds . . 146
Another showing the "Wall Subjects in Process of being drawn . 147
Tombs consisting of horizontal Tunnels.....149
Contents of one discovered near Der-el-Bahree .... 150
Of another opened at the Foot of El Shekh Abd-cl-Goornek . ib.
Pit Tombs . . . ,. ... . . .152
Condition in which many of them were found . 153
Relics from some behind the Memnonium . . . ' . . 154
Miniature Coffin from one at the Foot of El Shekh Abd-el-Goorneh 156
Contents of another near El Assasseef ..... 158
Painted Amphora . . . . . . . . .160
Tablets and wooden Dolls......• . 161
Bows, Arrows, Clubs . . . . . . . . 163
Small Tombs in the Valley of Der-el-Medeeneh and their Contents 165
Account of a large Shaft Tomb opened at Geezeh . . . 167
Excavations near the Sphinx.......169
Description of two Tombs there met with . . . .170
Their Contents unlike Egyptian Deposits.....172
Skull recovered from one of them — its Fate .... 174
CHAPTER VII.
OX THE THEORIES EXPLANATORY OP EGYPTIAN SEPULTURE.
Egyptian Burial Customs psychologically a Subject of Interest . 175
The possible Sources of Enlightenment as to their Development ib.
How far we may be guided by Inductions from the Relics . .177
Nature of the Connexion between Customs and Motives . .178
Its Intricacy from the Relations of Man to the Physical World . 179
General Bearings of the Question in Systems of Human Progres-
sion ........... 180
Inquiry as to Laws applicable to Man's Procedure . . .181
Erroneous Results of Deductions merely from broad Proposi-
tions ...........183
Effects of Individuality and of Race must bo also considered . 185
This general Discussion illustrative of the special Subjects of this
Chapter..........186
Lepsius' Hypothesis with Regard to the Size of the Pyramids . 187
Evidence of its Unsoundness.......188