Obfervations in Egypt. 4.1 ρ 



pofed, to have been concerned cither in the myftical Worfliip 

 oiOfiris ', or to have ferved for one of their (K/Vcq ίΐζ^] ') Sacred 

 Chefts , wherein either the Images of their Deities, or their 

 Sacred Veitments ' or Utenfils were kept ; or elfe that it 

 might have been a Fa^ifa or Ciitern \ fuch as contained the 

 Hofy Water, made ufe of in their Ceremonies. The Length'" 

 of it, which is fomewhat more than fix Foot, does indeed favour 

 the received Opinion of it's having been defigned for a Coffin ; 

 yet both the Height and the Breadth, which are each of them 

 about three Foot, very far exceed the Dimenfions, that perhaps 

 were ever obierved by the Egyptians, upon fuch Occafions. 

 Thofe Stone Coffins, which I have feen in Egypt, (and by them, κ. sto^e 

 I prefume, we may judge of others,) were all of them of ^Ι^Ζοί,^ 

 quite different Form from this pretended one o{ Cheops-, being F^^jf ^""^ 

 infcribedvvith Hierogfyphkks, and made exaftly in theFailiion 

 of the Mummy Chefts, juft capacious enough to receive one 

 Body. Whereas This, which I am fpeaking of, is an oblong 

 Square, not ending, as the Mummy Chefts do, in a Kind of 

 Pedeftal, whereupon it might have been erefted ; neither is 

 it adorned with any Sacred Charaoters, which, from the great 

 Number of Coffins that are never known to want them, feem 

 to have been a general as well as neceflary A£l of Regard and 

 Piety to the deceafed. 



The Manner likewife, in which thisCheft is placed, is quite ra. Mum- 

 different from what was perhaps ever obferved by t\\tEgyftiansJ^hceKiZ' 

 in the depofiting of their Dead. For the Mummies always ^^J^^'i'^" 

 ftand upright \ where Time or Accident have not difturbed 

 them : whereas This Cheft lyeth flat upon the Floor , and 

 thereby hath not that Dignity of Pofture, which, we may 

 fuppofe, this wife Nation knew to be peculiar, and therefore 



\ hi-^-9iM7ii^Oma.iQfrr<in.ityl'=s'v^aiiiiwlM7i.flHt. dc Ifid. ScOf. p. ^6^. Hyk^^iyofiivn Μ:ίΐΐ(ξις 

 tis 7h σαφίν Οΐτί&((Γ®', «ίίΐ- torn» ά^λ' » Kfu-^-iv vJhL7Qr 19 β.'^αησμίν taUTltSmi. id. p. 366. 2 Ferebatui" 

 ab alio Cifta fecretorum capax, penitus cdans opcrta magnijics. Religtonts. Apiil. Met. l.i r, p. 262. 

 3 Particularly of fuch as were\arricd about in their Comafu. ΗΛ Ji καν tcSi κακ,ιμίναα -ja^' 

 «tt/To/f ΚΛΜΑΣΙΑΙΣ, τω! SttZv Xfutm Λ}άλμΛτΛ• Jio ^ w/Votf, ha Λ Jefrtxa, 19 '£ir μίαν «sfcijegKtr/. CUiii. 

 Strom. 1.5•. p.413. 4 Favijfa locum fie appellabant, in quo erat aqua inclula circa Templa. 

 Sunt autem, qui putant Fav'iffas elfe in Capitolia caellis cifterniique limiles; ubi rcponi crane 

 folita ea, quae in Tcmplo vetuftate erant fada inutilia. Fefi. Fuit autem inTemplo Ρί/ώΐΛ 

 fub figura convcnicnti myfterijs eorum. Jbenepb. de Relig. Mgypt. apud Kirc/;. Obel. Pamph. 

 p. 4.73. 4" Vid. Not. I. p.421. 5• UtltXiyru ξνΚινον rumy iv^a-jtiHjia• ■ττοιιισάμίνοι Ji, iitfyvZa-i τον 

 nKc^r Kj ΜτΛκληίί^νττί ^«τα^Μανείζχσι b οικί^μαν θ»)(5ϋ&» 'sai-Tif ofdoc <Βζ}< τo7Jζo^ Herod. Eut. J. S6 

 Χ\ζ}{ ην tfffpsAeswToy τω? τοίχων όρθίω Ίΐα.7ΐ τλι- λίρι-αχΛ. Diod. 1. Ι. ρ. j8. 



yEgypthi Tellus 



Claudit odorato poft funus ftantia (bufto) faxo 



Corpora.— sil. Ital. 1.13. I.47J. 



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