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THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS. CHAP. XVI. 



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a fillet, her bosom exposed, and 

 her dress * supported, like that 

 of mourning women, by a strap 

 over the shoulder. She some- 

 times wore a scarf tied across her 

 hips ; much in the same manner 

 as Egyptian women now put on 

 their shawls both in the house 

 and when going out of doors. 

 She appears either to be a type 

 No. 501. A pecijiiar attendant ofmoumlng, or a woman who 



had some peculiar office on these occasions. 



A procession of this kind was all that attended the 

 funeral of a person who held the office of " scribe, 

 of weights and measures ;" but, as I have already 

 observed, the pomp displayed in the ceremony 

 depended on circumstances ; and individuals sur- 

 passed each other in the style of their burial, as in 

 the grandeur of their tombs, according to the sums 

 their family, or they themselves by will, granted for 

 the purpose. In another funeral t the order of the 

 procession was as follows : — 



First came eight men throwing dust upon their 

 heads, and giving other demonstrations of grief; 

 then six females, in the usual attire of mourners, 

 preceding the hearse, which was drawn by two oxen 

 — in this instance unassisted by men, two only being 

 near them; one uttering lamentations, and theother 

 driving them with a goad or a whij). Immedi- 



* ETTtKiorrftu')). Vide p. 402. Vide Plate 83. ; and Woodcut, No. 502. 

 Apuleiiis (Mctam. xi. 2.50.) says the liii;li priest nuule a purification 

 " vvitli a liijhtcd torch, an egg, and suljjhur." 



I /V'/r Plate 85. 



