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Miscellanea 
by Professor W. Spiegelberg of Strassburg in his work : A egyptische und griechische Eigennamen 
aus Mumienetil'etten, 1901. 
I presume that the individuals whose ages are thus preserved would not belong in bulk to 
the lowest nourished classes of the Egyptian population, so that they do not represent in any 
yf&j a selected short-lived class. If anything we may su2)pose them to belong to the rather 
better classes, and at a time when a fairly settled civil government was in existence. We may 
reasonably treat the material as a fair sample of what one of the most stable populations of 1900 
to 2000 years ago could manage in the matter of longevity. Unfortunately the material is very 
sparse. Professor Petrie provides me with the following table : 
Age at 
Death 
? 
Age at 
Death 
6 
? 
i\ 
1 
1 
33 
2 
1 
1 
1 
00 
Q 
2 
2 
— 
36 
2 
2 
3 
3 
2 
37 
1 

4 
3 
40 
3 
3 
5 
3 
— 
46 
1 
6 
2 
48 
2 
7 
1 
50 
5 
1 
8 
52 
3 
1 
9 
54 
1 
10 
1 
55 
2 
1 
11 
1 
59 
1 
U 
2 
, 60 
4 
1 
16 
1 
62 
1 
17 
2 
3 
63 
1 
18 
2 
65 
2 
19 
1 
2 
68 
2 
20 
2 
3 
70 
1 
21 
1 
6 
70-5 
1 
22 
2 
2 
72 
3 
23 
1 
2 
84 
1 
24. 
2 
90 
1 
25 
5 
4 
4 
1 
96 
] 
26 
27 
1 
1 
82 
59 
28 
1 
29 
1 
1 
30 
1 
2 
Total 141 
32 
1 
In dealing with this table 1 have not ventured to separate the ^ and $ mortality, the 
numbers are far too insignificant. In the second place I have used expectation of life, and not 
a mortality table, because at any rate after two years of age we get up to a good age the means 
of more or less considerable numbers. Evidently there are hardly any entries in the first year 
of life, there is no fair representation of infantile mortality. Baby mummies, if they ever 
existed, have disappeared out of all due proportion. 
In the diagram I have indicated by a small cross each expectation of life that it was possible 
to calculate, and I have further placed upon the diagram the English expectation of life based 
upon the average of male and female*. Now if we neglect infancy and extreme old age we really 
get a very fair sweep showing the general trend of the Egyptian mortality. I have very roughly 
adjusted the data representing them by the continuous curve. No elaborate adjustment was 
* Ogle's Table, 1871—80. 
