embalmer of the dead; a mummy of Amounirion covered
with a curious network of bugles in blue porcelain;
the upper part of a coffin with dedications to the
Egyptian god Osiris; a small coffin containing the
mummy of a child; the mummy of a female, Auch-sen-nefer,
upon which is a scarabaeus, the sacred beetle of the
Egyptians. In the fourth division the principal
object is the coffin of the last-named mummy, with
representations of various deities, including Nutpe,
or the Abyss of Heaven, a female figure with a vase
on her head; and linen wrappers from mummies of the
Greek period. Having examined these human relics
of remote antiquity, the visitor should pass at once
to cases 63, 64, leaving the intermediate cases for
future examination, where he will find scraps and fragments
of the coffins, wrappers, and ornaments of various
mummies. In the first division are fragments
of the mask of mummy coffins; fragments from the lower
end of coffins with the Egyptian bull Apis carrying
a mummy upon it; and hands (one holding a roll) from
mummy coffins; sepulchral sandals, one with a foreign
figure bandaged, in token of the enemies of the deceased
being at his feet. In the second division are
a variety of sepulchral tablets to Osiris, Isis, Anubis,
and other Egyptian deities. The next twelve cases
are filled with human mummies and their coffins.
In the first case is a mummy (1) of Pefaakhons, an
auditor of the royal palace during the twenty-sixth
dynasty. This mummy is about two thousand two
hundred years old. Upon it the visitor may notice
the representation of Egyptian deities Osiris, the
Hawk of Ra, Isis, the embalmer Anubis, and the bull
Apis. Mummy number two, in this case, is that
of a priest of Amoun, Penamoun, swathed in its bandages,
and here also is the outer linen case of the mummy
of Harononkh. The next case (66) is devoted to
the mummy and coffin of Tatshbapem: the figures
here represented are the deceased praying to Osiris,
the usual figure of the embalmer of the dead, Anubis,
and a scarabaeus, or sacred beetle, made of beads.
The next case contains the coffin and mummy of a priestess
of Amoun, named Kotbti. The hair is attached
to the mask of the face, as the visitor will observe,
by two ivory studs: there are wooden models of
the hands and arms decorated with bracelets and rings;
each hand upon the coffin holds a nosegay, and here
again the black Anubis with, his golden face appears
in company with Thoth (a figure of a man with the head
of an ibis), the Mercury of the Egyptians, god of
the moon and inventor of speech, Isis, the Egyptian
Ceres, and Nutpe, the Abyss of Heaven. The next
case (68) is the highly decorated coffin of the incense-bearer
of the abode of Noumra. Here the judgment scene
of the Amenti is pourtrayed; Osiris, in the shape
of a sphinx; and other sacred figures. The following
case (69) contains a mummy (l) of a Theban priest of
Amoun, swathed in its outer linen coverings, which
are decorated with various Egyptian divinities, and