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The mention of the openings for the body cavity and for tlie 
back is quite in conformity with my findings. M. Fouquet's 
difficulty in explaining the reference to an opening for the back 
in the Rhind papyrus has been disposed of in the preceding 
pages. 
The reference to the " seven openings of the head " in tha 
Rhind papyrus can only mean the ears, eyes, nostrils and mouth. 
Dr. Fouquet's attempt to ex})lain this quotation by enumerating 
the " ablation " of the eyes, incisions in the floor of the mouth 
for stuffing the neck, slits at the angles of the mouth and perfo- 
ration of the ethmoid is quite futile, because the eyes were not 
removed nor incised in any way, nor Avas the mucous membrane 
of the month cut, for the packing was introduced into the neck 
through the body cavity and not from the mouth. 
Revillout's translation of the Rhind papyrus contains a reference 
to " quatre [ouvertures] à la poitrine " where in Brugsch's ren- 
dering we find " die vier Horuskinder." The meaning of this is 
not altogether clear. No special openings or incisions were made 
for the four Genii who were the " children of Horus " : and, on 
the other hand, many openings are found in different mummies 
in or around the chest. There are ( 1 ) the opening from the thorax 
into the neck; (2) the two openings sometimes made to pack the 
breasts from the abdominal cavity or from the flank wound; (3) 
the tunnels made from the shoulder-incisions for packing the 
pectoral regions and (4) the stuffing of the back. Perhaps the open- 
ing of the thorax (by cutting through the diaphragm) is included. 
If so, this would explain the reference to the models of the chil- 
dren of Horus, which were put in the thorax. 
In the Rhind Papyrus it is stated that eight incisions were 
made " in the thirty six days " and afterwards nine more were 
made to complete the prescribed seventeen. It is impossible, even 
if we were to admit that this Ptolemaic account had any reference 
