EditorialJames aromatic, Parallel title: The balsamized Jacob; Jacob is being embalmed, Signed: G. D. He?man sculp, copper engraving, plate CXIV (vol. 1), F?ssli, Johann Melchior; Heumann, Georg Daniel (sculp.), 1731, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer: Kupfer-Bibel (...)...
EditorialCanopic Jar with Head of Duamutef, New Kingdom, Ramesside, Dynasty 19, ca. 1295?1185 B.C., From Egypt, Faience, H. 23 cm (9 1/16 in.), Canopic jars were made to contain the embalmed viscera removed from the body in the process of mummification. The org...
EditorialCanopic jar with a human-headed lid, Late Period, Saite, Dynasty 26, 664?525 B.C., Possibly from Upper Egypt, Thebes; From Egypt, Travertine (Egyptian alabaster), Jar with Lid: H. 38 cm (14 15/16 in); Diam. 22 cm (8 11/16 in); Jar: H. 25.5 cm (10 1/16 ...
EditorialAn illustration of mummies, an embalmed body and an Egyptian pyramid. A Compleat History of Druggs ... The second edition. London, 1737. Source: 7509.e.19, plate 69. Language: English.
EditorialThe body of Tee, a chief, as preserved after death, in Otaheite. Drawn by John Webber and engraved by W. Byrne. The scene shows the embalmed corpse of Tee propped up on a bed draped with cloth placed in front of a hut for viewing. The sides of the open...
EditorialCanopic jars for the embalmed intestines of the defunct The jars bear the following inscriptions: Hapi Amset, Dua-mutef, and Kebehsenuf; the last contains the intes-tines of Itj, engraver in the temple of Anubis. Egypt. Limestone (600 BCE) -Inv. 7186, ...
EditorialCanopic Jar with Head of Duamutef, New Kingdom, Ramesside, Dynasty 19, ca. 1295?1185 B.C., From Egypt, Faience, H. 23 cm (9 1/16 in.), Canopic jars were made to contain the embalmed viscera removed from the body in the process of mummification. The org...
EditorialCanopic jar with a human-headed lid, Late Period, Saite, Dynasty 26, 664?525 B.C., Possibly from Upper Egypt, Thebes; From Egypt, Travertine (Egyptian alabaster), Jar with Lid: H. 38 cm (14 15/16 in); Diam. 22 cm (8 11/16 in); Jar: H. 25.5 cm (10 1/16 ...
EditorialEgyptian mummies: mummy in coffin 1, coffin cover 2, bird urn 3, bird urn without cover 4, mummy of an embalmed ibis 5, and plan of underground chambers in a pyramid. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kin...
EditorialSinhalese funeral procession and cremation of a pepper-embalmed corpse. Handcolored copperplate engraving from G. T. Wilhelm's "Encyclopedia of Natural History: Mankind," Augsburg, 1804. Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm (1758-1811) was a Bavarian clergyman and ...
EditorialSARCOPHAGUS IN WHICH THE EMBALMED BODY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN DEPOSITED BY PTOLEMY FROM THE RUINS OF THE SOMA IN ALEXANDRIA This Sarcophagus is in the British Museum, 1888 engraving.
EditorialExamples of Egyptian hieroglyphs and writing on papyrus, an embalmed mummy in an urn, a mummy in its coffin and coffin lid. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Galle...
EditorialCanopic jars for the embalmed intestines of the defunct The jars bear the following inscriptions: Hapi Amset, Dua-mutef, and Kebehsenuf; the last contains the intes-tines of Itj, engraver in the temple of Anubis. Egypt. Limestone (600 BCE) -Inv. 7186, ...