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coffins of the British Museum and other collec- 

 tions. The first appears to be a sort of stand used 

 by workmen for supporting vases, or other things 

 they were chiseling whicli required a firm position ; 

 and the other resembles the knot or clasp of a 

 belt worn by the Gods and Kings.* 



Behind the hearse followed the 

 male relations and friends of the 

 deceased ; some beating their 

 breasts ; others, if not giving the 

 same tokens of grief, at least 

 showing their sorrow by their si- 

 No. 500. «. Knot of a belt. Icnce aud solemn step as they 

 walked, leaning on their long sticks. These closed 

 the procession. 



Arrived at the sacred lake, the coffin was placed 

 in the barisfy or consecrated boat of the dead, 

 towed by a larger one furnished with sails and 

 oars, and having frequently a spacious cabin t, 

 which, in company with other sailing boats carry- 

 ing the mourners and all those things above men- 

 tioned appertaining to the funeral §, crossed to the 

 other side. Arrived there, the procession went 

 in the same order to the tomb ; at which the priest 

 offered a sacrifice, with incense and libation j the 



♦ Vide sujjra, p. 26. note *. 



•f- " The boat which carries over the bodies of the dead is called 

 baris." Diod. i. 96. Vide infra, p. 433. Baris signifies the " boat of the 

 sun." 



I It is probable that Strabo alludes to these boats with cabins under 

 the name of thalaniegi or thalaniiferi, in which the Egyptians made 

 parties of pleasure on the \n ater. Lib. xvii. p. 550. Some were very 

 small, and towed on the lakes of their pleasure grounds by servants. 



^ On the cabin of the baris is the case containing'the Cynocephalus. 



