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cause of death in the case o£ a body which we know to have been 
put into a salt bath for embahning purposes soon after death and 
left there for several weeks ? 
1 do not think that we can be content to accept M. Fouquet's 
account as in any way final. 
Three years ago M. Maspero unrolled four mummies of the 21st 
dynastic period in the Cairo Museum ; and entrusted the tasks of 
writing the archaeological and anatomical reports respectively to 
M. Daressy and myself \ 
In ignorance of M. Fouquet's work I described the packing of 
the legs and the breasts of two women with pebbly sand and 
linen respectively without being able to find any previous record 
of such a procedure. 
In July, 1905, with the help of Mr. A. C. Mace (of the Hearst 
Egyptological Expedition of the University of California) I un- 
dertook the detailed study of the mode of wrapping and the 
treatment of the body in the case of the mummy of a Priestess 
of Amnion, named Ta-usert-em-suten-pa^ which M. Maspero 
kindly placed at our disposal. In the course of this examination 
we discovered that the stuffing of the various parts of the body 
was much more extensive and the process of packing much more 
elaborate than either M, Fouquet or I had supposed. I therefore 
undertook a fuller investigation of forty four mummies of the 
21st dynasty which M. Maspero had presented to me for the 
School of Medicine three years ago. It is the results of this 
examination that I propose to set forth in this memoir. 
Practically all of the material came from the great find of 
Priests and Priestesses of Ammon made by M. Grrébaut at Dêr el 
Bahari in 1891. 
1 M. Georges Daressy, Ouvertvre des Momies prorennut de la secwnde trouraille de 
Deir-el- Bahari. 
Gr. Elliot Smith, Report on the Four Mummies, Annales du Service des Antiquités de 
TEgypte, 1903, p. 15. 
