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decked with flowers. A high priest presents incense 

 before a table of offerings, and the females of the family 

 lament the loss of their relative. This is preceded by 

 two other boats, one having on board the female mom-ners, 

 the other the male friends of the deceased ; and two 

 more contain persons, employed to carry offerings, boxes, 

 chairs, and other objects appertaining to the procession. 

 In one of them, at the upper part of the picture, are 

 several men, who attended the funeral out of friendship 

 and respect to the family, the same vvho follow the coffin 

 in Plate 83. On arriving at the opposite shore, one of 

 these boats has grounded ; and being pushed back has 

 struck a small skiff with its rudder, upsetting a table upon 

 . the rowers : one of the many proofs of the fondness of 

 the Egyptians for caricature even in serious subjects. 

 All matters being adjusted, the procession lands on the 

 western shore of the lake, and proceeds to the necro- 

 polis, where the mummy is set up in the sepulchre of his 

 ancestors. The high priest again offers incense and li- 

 bation on an altar before the tomb, — a place where 

 stone altars are frequently found ; and prayers and la- 

 mentation for the deceased are offered by his assembled 

 relatives and friends. 



419. Plate 85. Another funeral procession to the tomb beneath 

 the mountain of the Theban Necropolis. Figs. 3. and 4. 

 are the same as mentioned in p. 418.; fig. 6. the sprinkler; 

 fig. 9. holds the emblem alluded to in p. 386. Anubis, 

 fig. 13., the type of Death, supports the mummy. Behind 

 him is the tablet, or tombstone, mentioned in p. 481.; 

 and fig. 15. is the tomb itself, at the end of the mountain, 

 fig. 16. 



421. Plate 86. A procession, in which palm branches are 

 strewed in the way. Figs. 8. and 10. are two tables of 

 offerings for the deceased and his wife, whose mummies, 

 figs. 13. and 15., are attended by their relations. Among 

 the offerings on the table, fig. 8., are the emblems men- 

 tioned in p. 386. Over the table is a napkin. 



447. Plate 87. A soul condemned to return to earth under 



