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Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge (1857-1934) was a prominent English Egyptologist who was Keeper of the Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities in the British Museum between 1893 and 1924. He was knighted in 1920 for his contributions to Egyptology. First published in 1893, this book contains a detailed discussion of the funerary rituals and objects which were used in Egyptian religion to allow the deceased to live again in the Duat (the afterlife). Budge provides detailed descriptions of common religious texts, religious rites and the major deities involved in these. He also includes interpretations for other artefacts which commonly accompanied a burial, including shabiti statues and amulets. His comprehensive study represents the state of Egyptian funerary archaeology before major archaeological finds of the twentieth century challenged its interpretations. The text reissued here is taken from the expanded and revised second edition, published in 1925.
Contents
Preface; 1. The land of Egypt and its divisions; 2. The nomes of Egypt; 3. The Nile and the annual inundation; 4. The ancient Egyptians, the Libyans, Hamites, etc.; 5. Egyptian chronology; 6. Outline of the history of Egypt; 7. List of the Nesubati and Son-of-Ra names of the principal kings of Egypt; 8. The decipherment of the Egyptian hieroglyphs; 9. The Egyptian language; Egyptian writing; 10. Egyptian writing materials; 11. Writing implements; 12. A list of the commonest hieroglyphs; 13. A list of the commonest determinatives; 14. The mummy, methods of mummifying, etc.; 15. Mummy labels; 16. Mummy cloth, byssus and Akhmim swathings; 17. Spindles, whorls and heckling combs; 18. The mummy-grid and mummy-board; 19. The cartonnage mummy-case; 20. Beadwork on mummies; 21. Painted and inscribed linen shrouds; 22. Models of personal attendants and slaves in the tomb; 23. Mummy labels or tickets; 24. The Book of the Dead; 25. Anointing tablets and the seven holy oils; 26. The vases of the four sons of Horus, or 'Canopic' jars; 27. Chests for 'Canopic' jars; 28. The head-rest, or pillow; 29. Pectorals in porcelain and steatite; 30. Shauabtiu, or Ushabtiu figures; 31. Ushabtiu in small sarcophagi and coffins; 32. Objects for the toilet; 33. Beads and necklaces, rings, bracelets, armlets, etc.; 34. The cylindrical seal, or seal-cylinder; 35. The scarab and the scarabaeus sacer; 36. The scarab of the heart; 37. Historical or memorial scarabs of Amenhetep III; 38. Amulets; 39. Gnostic amulets; 40. An Egyptian funeral in the dynastic period; 41. The ceremony of the four blazing flames; 42. Figures of Egyptian gods; 43. Graecized figures of Egyptian gods; 44. Wooden figures of Asar and Ptah-Seker-Asar; 45. Figures of animals, birds and reptiles, sacred to the gods; 46. Vessels in earthenware, stone, glass, etc.; 47. Funerary terra-cotta cones; 48. The Egyptian grave and tomb; 49. The Egyptian sarcophagus; 50. The Egyptian coffin; 51. The Hetep, or tablet for sepulchral offerings; 52. Censer, lustration vase, libation bucket; 53. Sepulchral stelae and tablets; 54. Foundation deposits; 55. Obelisks; 56. The tomb statue or Ka figure; 57. Models of objects used at the opening of the mouth; 58. Models of boats; 59. The spirit house; 60. Wands and other objects in ivory; 61. The cippus of Horus; 62. Draughts and draught-boards; 63. Toys; 64. Hypocephali; 65. Time; 66. The year; 67. Numbers; Index.
