Identifier: historyofartinan01perruoft (find matches)
Title: A history of art in ancient Egypt
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Perrot, Georges, 1832-1914 Chipiez, Charles, 1835-1901 Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918
Subjects: Art -- Egypt History Egypt -- Antiquities
Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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Fig. 121.—The upper chamber,well, and mummy chamber.^ ^ This figure is a composition by Mariette for the purpose of showing the relationbetween the subterranean and constructed parts of the tomb. (^Noticedes principauxMonuments, p. 22.) (It shows, however, the well opening from the floor of theupper chamber, an arrangement which is not characteristic of the mastaba.—Ed.) l82 A History of Art in Ancient Egypt. Marietta found none at Sakkarah with inscriptions. On theother hand we find them upon the sarcophagus at Khoo-foo-Ankh,which was discovered at Gizeh and belongs to the fourth dynasty(Figs. 123, 124). The Egyptians did not always trust to the mere size andweight of the lid for the secure closing of the sarcophagus. Theunder-side of the cover is made with a rebate at its edo^e which fitsinto a corresponding groove on the upper edge of the sarcophagus,and the two edges were bound still more tightly together by a
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Ik;. 122.—Double mastaba at Gizeh, transverse section (from Lepsius, t. i., pi. 22). very hard cement. Finally, as if all these precautions were notenoueh, wooden bolts were affixed to the under-side of the lidwhich fitted into slots in the sarcophagus and helped to render thetwo inseparable. So far as we can judge from the few human remains which havebeen gathered from these ancient tombs, the process of embalm-ment was then carried on in simple and elementary fashion, and itwas this imperfection that the Egyptians attempted to neutralize, The Tomb under the Ancient Empire. 183 by the innumerable and complicated precautions which they tookto insure that the corpse should not be disturbed in its envelope ofstone. In later times, when the preparation of the mummy wasbetter understood, they were not so careful to seal up thesarcophagus from the outer air. * The furniture of the mummy chamber comprised neitherstatues, nor funerary statuettes, nor amulets of any kind. Some-times a few o

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