body packed tightly in sawdust or coarser fragments of wood a 
large part of the abdomen and the pelvis still remained without 
any organs. This region was then tightly stuffed with sawdust 
and the opening in the left flank was then closed. This Avas 
done in two of my series of cases by bringing the edges of skin 
together and sewing up the opening wit4i a continuous running 
thread : in all of the rest the wound was allowed to gape and no 
attempt was made to bring its edges together. In most cases the 
flank incision was covered over by a plate — sometimes wax, some- 
times metal — bearing the conventional eye-design. This plate was 
often carved with great care (PI. XIX, figure 3) but in other 
cases the wax was merely scratched in a very rough manner. 
In none of the mummies of the earlier period (ie. those of the 
new Empire) have I seen plates bearing the eye-design used for 
this purpose — in some of the royal mummies, as also in that of 
Ynaa there was a leaf-shaped plate of gold covering the flank- 
incision. 
In most of the mummies of the 21st dynasty the whole surface 
of the body was painted — in the case of the women 3-ellow, in 
the case of the men sometimes red but at other times yellow. 
Dr. Schmidt analysed some of the yellow paint and found it to 
be a mixture of chrome yellow and gum. 
In several cases in which the mummies of men were not painted 
red a sheet of red linen was w^rapped around the body external 
to the innermost layer of circular bandages. 
Most of the mummies in which this curious packing and 
moulding of the form have been found belong to the period of the 
21st dynasty. In the brief sketch of the finding of these mummies 
given by M. Maspero in his " Guide au visiteur " ( op. cit. supra) 
it is stated that the style of the coffins indicates the time as 
being that of the 21st and 22nd dynasties (p. 142). In the 
mummy of a Chanteuse d' Amnion named Tentamout unrolled at 
