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THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS. CHAP. XVI. 



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No. 499. Closets containing 

 figures of Gods. 



First came several servants 

 carrying tables laden with fruit, 

 -A Jk cakes, flowers, vases ofointment*, 



^\ ^ wine and other liquids, with 



three young geese and a calf 

 for sacrifice, chairs and wooden 

 tablets, napkins t, and other things. Then 'others 

 bringing the small closets in which the mummy of the 

 deceased and of his ancestors had been kept, while 

 receiving the funeral liturgies previous to burial, 

 and which sometimes contained the images of the 

 Gods.t They also carried daggers, bows, sandals, 

 and fans ; each man having a kerchief or napkin on 

 his shoulder. Next came a table of offerings, fau- 

 teuils, couches, boxes, and a chariot§; and then 

 the charioteer with a pair of horses yoked in another 

 car, which he drove as he followed on foot, in token 

 of respect to his late master. After these were men 

 carrying gold vases on a table, with other offerings, 

 boxes, and a large case upon a sledge borne on 

 poles by four men, superintended by two function- 

 aries of the priestly order ; then others bearing small 

 images of his ancestors, arms, fans, the sceptres, 

 signets, collars, necklaces, and other things apper- 

 taining to the king, in whose service he had held an 

 important office. To these succeeded the bearers of 



* I have had occasion to notice the different materials of which vases 

 used for holding ointment were made. Alaha,«ter was most common, as 

 with the Greeks and Romans, who even adopted the name "alabaster" to 

 signify a vase, as inTheocr. Id.xv. 112. ^vpuii (^t fivf)(i)xf>vcni' a\a(::(((Trpa. 



f These were sometimes spread over the tables of offerings as table- 

 cloths. Vide Plate 86. 



t Vide supra, p. 298. note f . § Vide Vol. III. p. 17(i. 



