Book Description

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 edition. Excerpt: ... a prayer for the dead; it was found on the breast of a mummy, at Sakkarah. l043. ) Two figures of Typhon in gold, one of very superior 1044. workmanship, found at Sakkarah, the other, in purer gold, was found at Thebes 1045. A Sacred Serpent in gold. From Sakkarah. 1046. A triangular plate of Gold, with a royal oval contain ing a name not legible; it was found on the mummy of a female. From Sakkarah. 1047. Two small plates of Gold, taken from the ears of a mummy. 1048. An eye in gold. It is used as the hieroglyphic of Egypt, and also represents the eye of Osiris. From Sakkarah. 1049. A large Ring in the form of a Serpent. From Sakkarah. 1050. Gold Signet Ring, bearing the name of Slioofoo, the Suphis of the Greeks. 2325 years B. c. In shape and dimensions it resembles Figure 1, and the size of the impression exactly corresponds to Figure 2. Figure 3 is a magnified representation of the inscription engiiaved on it. This remarkable piece of antiquity is in the highest state of presei vat10I1, and was found at Ghizeh, in a tomb near that excavation of Colonel Vyse called Cainpbell's tomb. It is of line gold, and weighs nearly three sovereigns. The style of the bieroglyphics is in perfect accordance with those in the tombs about the Great Pyramid, and the hieroglyphics within the oval is the name of that Pharaoh of whom the pyramid was the tomb. The details are minutely accurate, and beautifully executed. The heaven is engraved with stars: the fox, or jackal, has significant lines within its contour: the hatchets have their handles bound with thongs, as is usual in the sculptures: the volumes have the string which binds them hanging below the roll, diffei-iiig in this respect from any example in sculptured or painted...