The Mummy
A Handbook of Egyptian Funerary Archaeology

A comprehensive discussion of the rituals and objects used in ancient Egyptian burials and the mummification process.

E. A. Wallis Budge (Author)

9781108018258, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 22 July 2010

620 pages, 72 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 3.5 cm, 0.78 kg

Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge (1857–1934) was a prominent English Egyptologist who was Keeper of the Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities in the British Museum between 1893 and 1924. He was knighted in 1920 for his contributions to Egyptology. First published in 1893, this book contains a detailed discussion of the funerary rituals and objects which were used in Egyptian religion to allow the deceased to live again in the Duat (the afterlife). Budge provides detailed descriptions of common religious texts, religious rites and the major deities involved in these. He also includes interpretations for other artefacts which commonly accompanied a burial, including shabiti statues and amulets. His comprehensive study represents the state of Egyptian funerary archaeology before major archaeological finds of the twentieth century challenged its interpretations. The text reissued here is taken from the expanded and revised second edition, published in 1925.

Preface
1. The land of Egypt and its divisions
2. The nomes of Egypt
3. The Nile and the annual inundation
4. The ancient Egyptians, the Libyans, Hamites, etc.
5. Egyptian chronology
6. Outline of the history of Egypt
7. List of the Nesubati and Son-of-Ra names of the principal kings of Egypt
8. The decipherment of the Egyptian hieroglyphs
9. The Egyptian language
Egyptian writing
10. Egyptian writing materials
11. Writing implements
12. A list of the commonest hieroglyphs
13. A list of the commonest determinatives
14. The mummy, methods of mummifying, etc.
15. Mummy labels
16. Mummy cloth, byssus and Akhmim swathings
17. Spindles, whorls and heckling combs
18. The mummy-grid and mummy-board
19. The cartonnage mummy-case
20. Beadwork on mummies
21. Painted and inscribed linen shrouds
22. Models of personal attendants and slaves in the tomb
23. Mummy labels or tickets
24. The Book of the Dead
25. Anointing tablets and the seven holy oils
26. The vases of the four sons of Horus, or 'Canopic' jars
27. Chests for 'Canopic' jars
28. The head-rest, or pillow
29. Pectorals in porcelain and steatite
30. Shauabtiu, or Ushabtiu figures
31. Ushabtiu in small sarcophagi and coffins
32. Objects for the toilet
33. Beads and necklaces, rings, bracelets, armlets, etc.
34. The cylindrical seal, or seal-cylinder
35. The scarab and the scarabaeus sacer
36. The scarab of the heart
37. Historical or memorial scarabs of Amenhetep III
38. Amulets
39. Gnostic amulets
40. An Egyptian funeral in the dynastic period
41. The ceremony of the four blazing flames
42. Figures of Egyptian gods
43. Graecized figures of Egyptian gods
44. Wooden figures of Asar and Ptah-Seker-Asar
45. Figures of animals, birds and reptiles, sacred to the gods
46. Vessels in earthenware, stone, glass, etc.
47. Funerary terra-cotta cones
48. The Egyptian grave and tomb
49. The Egyptian sarcophagus
50. The Egyptian coffin
51. The Hetep, or tablet for sepulchral offerings
52. Censer, lustration vase, libation bucket
53. Sepulchral stelae and tablets
54. Foundation deposits
55. Obelisks
56. The tomb statue or Ka figure
57. Models of objects used at the opening of the mouth
58. Models of boats
59. The spirit house
60. Wands and other objects in ivory
61. The cippus of Horus
62. Draughts and draught-boards
63. Toys
64. Hypocephali
65. Time
66. The year
67. Numbers
Index.

Subject Areas: Archaeology by period / region [HDD]