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TOMB OF A THEBAN DIGNITARY.
skin of the upper part of the body had been gilt with
thick gold leaf; and the arms, first hound round by
a single bandage, were brought down by the sides, with
the hands resting under the thighs, and then embedded
in the general swathing. That is to say they were
not rolled up apart according to the practice com-
monly attributed to Greek times, by which also each
finger was often separately bandaged.
All the mummies in the pillared cases, being five,
and, indeed, all the others in the tomb, were laid in
the same attitude, and the upper portions of several of
the former were likewise gilt. Of these, one of a lady
from chamber No 3, the wife of the occupant of the
granite sarcophagus, bore also on the left side a pa-
pyrus, to which we shall hereafter return. Another was
decorated with a gilt mask. And another, being a
handsome specimen of the style of ornamenting ex-
ternally, by means of inlaid or impressed emblems of
gold and coloured vitreous composition, in the manner
which, to a greater or less extent, prevailed on all, I
removed and have retained in the condition in which
the Plate (VII.) represents it. In this instance the
compact bitumenised cloths began to occur beneath
not more than two outer layers of the ordinary linen,
and here, in the black glutinous substance, are em-
bedded the figures. The genii of the Amenti are on
the left side, over the spot probably of the ventral in-
cision; Pthah above the knees; Anubis with the
corpse, on the breast; the hawks of Horus on the
shoulders; the pillar of stability on the forehead;
TOMB OF A THEBAN DIGNITARY.
skin of the upper part of the body had been gilt with
thick gold leaf; and the arms, first hound round by
a single bandage, were brought down by the sides, with
the hands resting under the thighs, and then embedded
in the general swathing. That is to say they were
not rolled up apart according to the practice com-
monly attributed to Greek times, by which also each
finger was often separately bandaged.
All the mummies in the pillared cases, being five,
and, indeed, all the others in the tomb, were laid in
the same attitude, and the upper portions of several of
the former were likewise gilt. Of these, one of a lady
from chamber No 3, the wife of the occupant of the
granite sarcophagus, bore also on the left side a pa-
pyrus, to which we shall hereafter return. Another was
decorated with a gilt mask. And another, being a
handsome specimen of the style of ornamenting ex-
ternally, by means of inlaid or impressed emblems of
gold and coloured vitreous composition, in the manner
which, to a greater or less extent, prevailed on all, I
removed and have retained in the condition in which
the Plate (VII.) represents it. In this instance the
compact bitumenised cloths began to occur beneath
not more than two outer layers of the ordinary linen,
and here, in the black glutinous substance, are em-
bedded the figures. The genii of the Amenti are on
the left side, over the spot probably of the ventral in-
cision; Pthah above the knees; Anubis with the
corpse, on the breast; the hawks of Horus on the
shoulders; the pillar of stability on the forehead;