17 8 Dr. Blumenbach s Observations 
The mask, exhibiting human features, was of a gypseous 
plaster, which here and there shewed some signs of having 
once been gilt. 
Of the semicircular breast-plate, only some fragments were 
still extant. 
The lower part of the front covering was, as is frequently 
observed on large mummies, in a manner dissected in regular 
compartments; and on it were painted the two standing fi- 
gures that so often appear on the integuments of mummies, 
viz. on the right side, Anubis with the dog's head, and on the 
left, Osiris with the head of a sparrow-hawk. 
The mummy itself was opened at the side. The outward 
integuments were glued so fast upon each other that it was 
found necessary to use a saw : the inner ones were less adhe- 
sive. I counted in the whole above 20 circumvolutions of these 
cotton bandages. 
Within these was found, as a kind of nucleus, a bundle, 
about 8 inches long, and full ■ inches in circumference, of the 
integuments of a larger mummy, strongly impregnated with a 
resinous substance, which rendered it hard and compact, and 
which appeared on the edge to have been shaped into this ob- 
long form by the paring of a knife. Pieces of this mass having 
been put on a heated poker, emitted a smell perfectly similar 
to that of fir-rosin, or the drug called wild incense from ant- 
bills- 
The sarcophagus consisted of six small square boards o sy- 
camore, fastened together with iron nails. 
Soon after, I found in the collection of Dr. Lettsom, F. K. 8. 
another similar mummy, which, outwardly, perfectly resembled 
the above, was likewise contained in a sarcophagus, and differed 
