The Mummy
By: by E. A. Wallis Budge.
Publisher: Causeway Books
Published: 1974
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780883560266
Subjects: Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Egypt.; Mummies -- Egypt.; Egypt -- Antiquities.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reprint of the 2d ed., 1894, published by the University Press, Cambridge, Eng., with a new introd.
"The chapters contained in this book were originally written to form the introduction to the Catalogue of the Egyption collection in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge."
Table of contents: title: Introduction to the Causeway edition; title: Preface; title: The Egyptian race and language; title: The land of Egpyt; title: Egpytian chronology; title: The history of Egypt.; title: Dynasties I-XXX; title: Persian rulers of Egypt; title: Macedonian rulers of Egypt; title: The Ptolemies; title: The Romans; title: The Byzantines; title: The Muhammadans; title: List of Egyptian dynasties and the dates assigned to them by Egyptologists; title: List of Nomes of Upper and Lower Egypt; title: List of the cartouches of the principal Egyptian kings; title: The Rosetta Stone; title: An Egyptian funeral; title: Mummy, methods of mummifying; title: Mummy cloth and Akhmim embroideries; title: Canopic jars and the inscriptions upon them; title: Chests for canopic jars; title: The Book of the Dead; title: Pillows; title: Ushabtiu figures; title: Ptah-Seker-Ausar figures; title: Sepulchral boxes; title: Funereal cones or models of loaves of bread; title: Stelae; title: Vases; title: Objects for the toilet, mirrors, tweezers, hair-pins, combs, fans, Kohl-pots, Oils; title: Necklaces, rings, bracelets, etc.; title: Scarabs; title: Amulets; title: Figures of the gods; title: Figures of animals, etc., sacred to the gods; title: Figures of kings and private persons; title: Coffins; title: Sarcophagi; title: Egyptian tombs; title: Egyptian writing materials; title: Egyptian writing; title: Mummies of animals, reptiles, birds, and fishes; title: Cippi of Horus; title: The Egyptian months, and their names, in Coptic, Greek, and Arabic; title: Egyptian and Coptic numbers; title: A list of common hieroglyphic characters; title: A list of common determinatives