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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 obvions £rom the fact that one end of the linen bandage is 
ahnostalways intertwined with — and so fixedto — some part of the 
organ wrapj^ed. 
The small intestines are usnally bent upon themselves a large 
number o£ times so as to form an elongated parcel of parallel 
bands. Aniongst thèse bands there was often placed (while the 
viscus was still flexible) a wax image of one of the four genii — 
usually the hawk-headed Khehsenuf. Then the mass was thickly 
sprinkled with 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 aronnd the cylindrical mass of intestines, then 
after two or three longitudinal turns, the whole mass was invested 
by a séries 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 
formahollow tube open on one side (Pl. XIII, figure 3, P1.XVIII 
figure 4, and Pl. 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 A7nset — 
is found in most cases. It was, in other respects, treated like 
the intestines. Although either of thèse parcels may be found 
in any part of the bodj^-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 costal margin (Pl. III, figure 1, A) and the liver 
transversely in the lower part of the thorax (Pl. III,- figure 1, i?). 
When the various j^arcels of viscera had been returned to the 
