Catalogue of the Mayer Collection Volume 1; The Egyptian, Babylonian, and Assyrian Antiquities (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 Excerpt: ...writing, mostly the 18th chapter; on one is the name of the person from whose mummy they all most probably came, Har (or Horus), son of Ankhespeu. 11459-64. 189. Mummy 'Wrappings; twelve strips of linen with portions of the Ritual of the Dead inscribed on them in late hieratic writing; on one is the name of the person from whose mummy they all most probably came, Tatha, son of Ta. 11465. 190. Mummy Wrappings; five strips of linen with vignettes from the Ritual of the Dead inscribed upon them.. 11466. 191. Mummy 'Wrappings; strip of linen with portions of chapters 88 and 89 of the Ritual of the Dead inscribed upon it in late hieratic writing; the name of the person from whose mummy it came, was Hapu, daughter of Takhaau. In the "Zeitschrift fur vEgyptische Sprache" for Sept. and Oct., 1872, Dr. Birch says of this fragment: " In the Liverpool Museum there is an additional chapter to the transformations in the Book of the Dead inscribed in hieratic upon cloth." Dr. Birch calls this new chapter to the Ritual of the Dead, "The chapter of making the transformation into a crocodile," being the metempsychosis of the soul into that reptile. S. 24 in. x 2J in. 11158. 192. Woven Linen Belt: said to have been found on a mummy at Sakkara. This curious specimen of weaving is 5 in. wide at one end, and gradually narrows towards the other end, where it is only 1 in. wide; along the edge is a pattern composed of symbols of life; at the wide end is inscribed the name of Rameses III. (b.c. 1312), and the date of the second year of his reign. L. 17 //. 11156. 193. Leather Straps; four ends of leather straps, impressed with the name of Osorchon I., of the 22nd dynasty (about B.c. 993847), and a figure of that king adoring a deity. Vide No. 126 in t...