(JO Nolices respecting Neia Booh. 



few details of a scientific nature, the opinion of its merits, with which 

 we have commenced this review. 



The mummy described in the work now before us was sent to 

 London from Trieste, to which place it had probably been trans- 

 mitted from Egypt by that celebrated spoliator of the Egyptian 

 sepulchres, M. Passalacqua. It was inclosed in a coffin of sycamore, 

 covered with paintings and hieroglyphical inscriptions, which retain- 

 ed much of their original brilliancy of colouring. Beneath the coffin- 

 lid, which represented a recumbent human figure, and fitted closely 

 to the bandages of the mummy, was another wooden covering, also 

 representing a man, and decorated with hieroglyphics. The whole of 

 the swathings were secured by bandages of linen, wound obliquely 

 about the body for five or six thicknesses ; beneath these were broader 

 bandages of coarser linen. On unwrapping one or two of the folds, a 

 wreath or fillet of intricate flower-work was discovered on the breast, 

 exactly resembhng the collars constantly represented round the necks 

 of Egyptian figures. The removal of a kw more folds disclosed an- 

 other singular ornament upon the bandages of the head and face. This 

 consists of three straps of red leather, to which is attached a smaller 

 piece of the same material, precisely corresponding in outline to 

 the form of certain amulets in basalt, found by Belzoni in the tombs 

 of the kings at Biban-el-Malouk, and like them covered with hiero- 

 glyphics. " The figures and hieroglyphics upon this ornament," 

 Mr. Osburn observes, " are evidently the impressions of heated metal 

 types." On continuing to unwrap, several larger pieces of linen 

 were found, merely laid upon the body, of all the three different 

 textures of cloth which were found about the mummy. One^ of 

 the finest was a perfect garment, of a very simple form, answering 

 exactly to the Egyptian garment described by Herodotus under the 

 name of Calasms. The arms of the mummy, which were now visible, 

 are slightly bent at the elbows, so that the hands meet in front ; they 

 were closely swathed in linen from the shoulders to the tips of the 

 fingers. The unwrapping of the few folds now intervening between 

 the arms and the body, exposed a thick layer of spicery, consisting 

 of pounded myrrh and cassia, which was found to be interposed 

 everywhere between the bandages and the skin. 



The body is in an unusually perfect state of preservation. The 

 outer skin, which is not removed as in the mummy examined by 

 Dr. Granville, is of a livid gray colour, soft and greasy to the touch, 

 and, as well as the flesh, has some resemblance to adipocere. The 

 features appeared shrivelled, but not otherwise at all injured, except 

 by slight compressions on the forehead and bridge of the nose, 

 which seem to have been occasioned by bandages drawn tightly 

 across the face while in a soft state. The head, eyebrows, and beard, 

 have been closely shaved, a circumstance agreeing with the ordi- 

 nances of the Egyptian priesthood, as recorded by Plutarch and 

 Herodotus. The contents of the trunk had been removed through 

 an incision on the left side of the abdomen ; every thing was cleared 

 away, even to the great vessels which run along the spinal column ; 

 but the heart, the liver, and the kidneys, after being embalmed, had 



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