body packed tightly in sawtlust or coarser fragments o£ wood a 
large part of the abdomen and the pelvis still remained without 
any organs. Tins région was then tightly stuffed with sawdust 
and the opening in the left flank was then closed. This was 
done in two of my séries of cases by bringing the edges of skin 
together and sewing up the ojiening with a continnous rnnning 
thread : in ail of the rest the wound was alloAved 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 métal — bearing the conventional eye-design. This plate was 
often carved with great care (Pl. XIX, fîgnre 3) but in other 
cases the wax was merely scratched in a very rough manner. 
In none of the mnnnnies of the earlier period (ie. those of the 
new Empire) have I seen plates bearing the eye-design nsed for 
this purpose — in some of the royal mummies, as also in that of 
Yitaa 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 yellow, 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 wrapped around the body external 
to the innermost layer of circular bandages. 
Most of the mummies in which this curions 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 thèse 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'Annnon named Tentamout unrolled at 
