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THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS. CHAP. XVI. 



couches in their houses, with the head and feet of 

 a Hon. Sometimes the mummy was placed on the 

 top of the sarcophagus, within an open hearse ; 

 and three friends of the deceased, or the func- 



tionaries destined for this office, took it thence to 

 convey it to the tomb, where it received the ac- 

 customed services previous to interment in the 



