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moulded into shape and wrapped in linen. That the viscera had 
not been dried and were still flexible when the wrapping was 
done is obvious from the fact that one end of the linen bandage is 
ahnost always intertwined with — and so fixed to — some part of the 
organ wrapped. 
The small intestines are usually bent upon themselves a large 
number of times so as to iform an elongated parcel of parallel 
bands. Amongst these bands there was often placed (while the 
viscus was still flexil)le) a wax image of one of the four genii — 
usually the hawk-headed Khebsenuf. Then the mass was thickly 
sprinkled Avith sawdust and wrapped in a linen bandage. As a 
rule a bandage about 5 cm. broad was employed : one end was 
intertwined with a coil of intestine and the bandage was then 
wound spirally around the cylindrical mass of intestines, then 
after two or three longitudinal turns, the whole mass was invested 
by a series of spirals. The end of the bandage remained free ; 
and one end of the parcel was then in many cases slightly bent 
so that the end of the bandage become caught in the kink (Pis. 
XVI, XVII and XVIII). 
The liver is usually flexed around its transverse axis so as to 
form a hollow tube open on one side (PI. XIII, figure 3, PI. XVIII 
figure 4, and PI. XVII, figure 1). Either the upper or the lower 
surface may form the surface of the tubular cylinder. Inside 
the latter a wax statuette — usually the human-headed Amset — 
is found in most cases. It was, in other respects, treated like 
the intestines. Although either of these parcels may be found 
in any part of the body-cavity, yet more often than not they are 
found in definite situations — the parcel of intestines vertically in 
the abdomen against the right wall extending from the iliac fossa 
to the right costid margin (PI. Ill, figure 1, ^) and the liver 
transversely in the lower part of the thorax (PI. Ill, figure 1,5). 
When the various parcels of Aascera had been returned to the 
