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Upper and Lower Egypt, presents incense to Re. A 

 vase of libation and flowers are on the altar. Fig. 2. A 

 peculiar ceremony, signifying the dedication of part of a 

 temple. ( Vide Woodcut, No. 470. p. 276.) Fig. 3. The 

 king, wearing the crown of Upper Egypt, presents incense 

 and libation ; and the queen, fig. 4., holds forth two em- 

 blems of the office of the Pallacides, for which are often 

 substituted two 5w<r«. Figs. 8. and 9. The king kneeling 

 presents silver images of his ancestors, which bear va- 

 rious offerings. 



410. Plate 83. Great funeral procession of a royal scribe at 

 Thebes. The beginning of this procession is in line 3., 

 where persons bring various offerings, and a calf to be 

 killed for the use of the poor. Then follow others 

 bearing small closets for the statues of the Gods, or the 

 ancestors of the deceased, chairs, tables, couches, and a 

 chariot ; next comes a led chariot ; and in the 2d 

 line are other persons carrying vases, boxes, images, 

 insignia of office, fans, and other objects, together with a 

 boat. In the uppermost line are the bearers of cases 

 covered with palm branches ; then female mourners, and 

 a chest containing a sitting Cynocephalus on a sledge, 

 followed by a high priest; after which is the coffin on a 

 sledge, decked as usual with flowers ; the procession 

 closing with the friends or male relatives of the deceased. 

 In the lowest line the funeral is supposed to pass over 

 the lake. On the top of the cabin is the case containing 

 the Cynocephalus ; and in the small boat are the figures 

 of the deceased and his sister seated under a canopy with 

 a table of offerings before them, while a priest reads their 

 eulogium, to show their claims to admission to the regions 

 of the just. Having landed on the other side of the lake, 

 the priest presents offerings, with incense and libation, 

 before the mummies; and the female mourners throw dust 

 upon their heads in token of grief. 



415. Plate 84. Funeral procession crossing the Lake of the 

 Dead at Thebes, and going thence to the tomb. The 

 first boat (beginning on the left) contains the coffin, 



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