luented, otiicis areuatfo\%'er, ana cross li^in lut suouiafcx 

 to the belt, whilst the arms are swathed with narrow- 

 strips like the animal mummies. The back part of 

 the head, and the extremities of the head and feet, 

 are bared, exhibiting the hair and bones. 



In the centre of the room, case A A A is the wooden 

 coffin of Cleopatra, daughter oi Candace : on the arched 

 part of the cover are judgment scenes before Ra and 

 Osiris, a train of inferior deities seated in porches and 

 holding swords in their hands. Two rows of hawks 

 with human and animal heads ; on one side a boat with 

 a disk attached to a snake drawn by four deities. On 

 the other a boat with the disk of the right symbolic eye 

 attached to a snake drawn by three jackals. The Hat^^ 

 the Scaraboeus, with extended wings, and tlie Scaraboeus 

 in the boat, with Isis and another deity paying it homage. 

 The interior represents Heaven, surrounded by zodiacal 

 signs, and at the sides of the head are four tortoises. 

 The upper end has the hawk of Ra, and the lower the 

 cow of Athor, seated on a pedestal. On the sides are 

 the twenty-four hours as female figures, twelve on each 

 side, each procession closed by a thiiteenth female, 

 doubtless as a personification of the morning and 

 evening star. It is nearly six feet in length, 

 two feet in breadth, and two feet in height. 

 But it must not be considered that the Egyptians di- 

 rected their attention exclusively to the preservation of 

 the human species ; on the contrary, embalming; was 

 practised almost as extensively upon some animals as 

 it was on men, particularlj' on those that they held 

 sacred. The list of mummied animals given by Mr. 

 Pettigrew, includes the lion, wolf, bat, dog, monkey, 

 cat, jackal, fox, hyena, bear, ichneumon, shreAv-mouse, 

 deer, goat, sheep, oxen, and calves, hippopotamus, vul- 

 ture, eagle, ibis, owl, hawk, falcon, crocodile, swallow, 

 goose, toad, adder snake, lizard, carp, pike, and some few 

 other fish, with some insects. Strange to say, seme ve- 

 getables also have been found embalmed. 



In case D D we find the mummy of part of a bull^ 

 remarkable for its perfect preservation during a lapse of 

 two or thi-ee thousand years. jMost of these animals 

 had cases appro- 

 priated to their spe- 

 jcies ;but sometimes 

 they are mixed, and 

 vervrarelv thev are 



