The Mummy: Chapters on Egyptian Funereal Archaeology

Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge

Biblo & Tannen Publishers, 1964 - History - 404 pages

Contents

• The Land of Egypt: 1
• Coffins: 49
• List of Egyptian Dynasties and the dates assigned to them: 69
• Anpu Anubis: 73
• List of the Cartouches of the Principal Egyptian Kings: 76
• Mummy Cloth and Akhmîm Embroideries: 91
• Hapi Apis: 105
• Pillows: 168
• Mesthå: 197
• The Heart: 260
• Ptah: 273
• Tuamāutef: 283
• Menhit: 289
• Măsțăbas: 318
• Coptic Writing and Language: 349
• and Arabic: 364
• 1: 385
• A List of Common Hieroglyphic Characters: 387

About the author

E.A. Wallis Budge, 1857 - 1934 Budge was the Curator of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities at the British Museum from 1894 to 1924. He was also a Sometime Scholar of Christ's College, a scholar at the University of Cambridge, Tyrwhitt, and a Hebrew Scholar. He collected a large number of Coptic, Greek, Arabic, Syriac, Ethiopian, and Egyptian Papyri manuscripts. He was involved in numerous archaeology digs in Egypt, Mesopotamia and the Sudan. Budge is known for translating the Egyptian Book of the Dead, which is also known as The Papyrus of Ani. He also analyzed many of the practices of Egyptian religion, language and ritual. His written works consisted of translated texts and hieroglyphs and a complete dictionary of hieroglyphs. Budge's published works covered areas of Egyptian culture ranging from Egyptian religion, Egyptian mythology and magical practices. He was knighted in 1920. E.A. Wallis Budge died on November 23, 1934 in London, England.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Mummy: Chapters on Egyptian Funereal Archaeology; Volume 1894 of The Mummy: Chapters on Egyptian Funeral Archaeology, Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge
• Author: Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Biblo & Tannen Publishers, 1964
• ISBN: 081960139X, 9780819601391
• Length: 404 pages
• Subjects: History / Africa / General; Social Science / Archaeology; Social Science / Death & Dying; Social Science / General