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Title: The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916
Subjects: History, Ancient Egypt -- History Syria -- History and antiquities Assyria -- History and antiquities
Publisher: London : S.P.C.K.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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oosened his shroud and calledback the double who had escaped from the body at the moment of the death-agony,* and restored to him the use of his arms and leg^. As soon as the Cf., for the idea involved in this ceremony, iJawn y whom they have been annotated at length ; cf. MA,sPEIio, Etudesde Mythrilogie et dA:chiiilofjie Egi/iitieimes, vol. i. pp. 203-321. The short description I have given iuthe text follows exactly the order observed iu the tomb of Seti I. (E. Lefedcre, Leu llijpugees royauxde Thihea: J. Le lomhcau de t-eii I, in the Mimoireii de la Migsion Fraiiraisc, vol. ii., pt. 3.pis. i.-xiii.). 2 MAbPEBo, iludes de MijUtologie el dArchiblogie £gypt!ennes, vol. i. p;>. 292-310. IJrawn liy Faucher-Gudin, from a photograph by Insinger, taken at Tliebea iu 1881. Mabpeho, ujK cil., vol. i. p. 300.
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NICHE IN THE TOMB OF MESJNA.^ 520 THE CLOSE OF THE TBEBAN EMPIRE. sacrificial slaughterers had despatched the bull of the fouth, and cut it inpieces, the priest seized the bleeding haunch, and raised it to the lips of themask as if to invite it to eat; but the lips still remained closed, and refused to perform their office. The priest then touched them with several iron instru-ments hafted on wooden handles, which were supposed to possess the power of unsealing them. The opening once efiected, the double became free, and the tomb-paintings from thenceforward ceasing to depict the mummy, represented the double only. They portrayed it under the form which he had on this earth, wearing the civil garb, and fulfilling his ordinary functions.^ Tlie corpse was regarded as merely the larva, to be maintained in its integrity in order to ensure survival; but it could be relegated without fear to the ilepths of the bare and naked tomb, there to remain until the end of time, if it pleased the god

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