226 PYRAMIDS OF SACCARA. 
ciiA.p. accuracy S in which the bodies are all represented 
'» y ' cumbent, with their faces upwards. Denons de- 
scription of the Cryptce to the north-east of Thebes 
is of the same nature^. ^* At the bottom of the 
galleries, the sarcophagi stood insulated, of a 
single block of granite each, of twelve feet in 
length and eight in width, rounded at one end, 
squared at the other, like that of St.Athanasiusy 
in Alexandria^ And again, in his long and diffi- 
cult search to discover " the manner in which a 
mummy was placed in its sepulchre," having 
ventured into cryptce where the bodies had 
never been disturbed, he found ^ them " placed 
upon the ground^ and allowed as much space as 
could contain them in regular order." Vococle, 
describing the Catacomhs of Saccara, speaks of 
" benches about two feet above the passages," 
on which "he supposes "* they laid the mum- 
mies;" but, being desirous of adapting even 
these appearances to a notion of their upright 
posture, he adds^ " Probably the inferior per- 
(1) Vifl. (Edip. ^3Lgypt. syntagma xiii. c. 4. torn. III. pf 400, 
Rom. 1654. 
(2) Dewoji. Trav. in Etii/pt, vol. II. p. I74. Lond, 1803, 
(3) Ibid. p. 226. 
(4) Descr. of the East, vol. I, p. 54. Lond. 1743. 
(5) Ibid. 
