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embalming Quality. Nothing now re- 

 mained but to dry the Body, (the Method 

 of doing which is not with Certainty 

 known) and wrap it round with Bandages 

 of Linen Cloth, and the Bark Papyrus, 

 filling up the hollow Parts, and fometimes 

 the Cavity of the Belly, with fmall earthen 

 Figures, in the Form of Mummies, but 

 with the Head of Cifiris or Ifis^ and im- 

 prefled with various Hieroglyphics, or 

 having on them the Figures of Beetles, 

 which they fuperftitioufly thought were 

 Protectors of the Dead ( Prophyla^eria ), 

 Having thus finilhed their Work, they 

 depofited it in the Coffin, which had be- 

 fore been excavated in the Fofrm of the 

 Mummy to receive it. 



The Face of the Mummy here pre- 

 ferved is covered with a gilded Mafkj 

 near its Feet is a Skull, and feveral Bones, 

 viz. Feet and Flands, taken from a bro- 

 - ken Mummy, which fhews the State in 

 which thefe embalmed Bodies are pre- 

 ferved from Decay. Over its Head are 



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