DESCRIPTION OF THE PLATES 
Plate I. 
Figure 1. — The right half of the head of a mummy of the 21st dynasty, 
which was divided into two by a mesial sagittal section. 
A probe has been placed in the artificially made passage from the 
nose into the cranium. An accumulation of resin is seen in the back 
of the cranial cavity. 
Figure 2. — The front part of the floor of the cranial cavity of another 
mummy to show the ovoid opening made in the roof of the nasal fossae 
and the resin-smeared track leading back from it. 
Figure 3. — The head of a mummy split in the mesial plane, and the right 
half turned up. A probe is placed in the passage made by the embalmer. 
The cranial cavity is filled with a large quantity of resin and linen 
bandages packed among the membranes of the brain and even the 
remains of the brain itself. 
Plate II. 
Figure 1. — The mummy of a Priest of Amnion (21st dynasty) after the 
removal of all the wrappings. 
Figures. — The same mummy, after the anterior abdominal wall had been 
removed to show the sawdust packing of the body cavity. 
Figure 3. — The same mummy. The sawdust has been removed from the 
abdominal cavity, but left in the thoracic cavity, which has been 
opened by removing the anterior wall of the chest. 
Three parcels of viscera (wrapped in linen) are exposed — one (A) in 
the abdomen, aud two (B and C) in the thorax. At D is seen packing 
material pushed between the skin and the thoracic wall from the 
shoulder incision. 
The embalming wound in the left flank can be seen now. 
