In connection with cave burial, the subject of mummifying or embalming the dead may be taken up, as most specimens of the kind have generally been found in such repositories.
The mummifying of the poor was cheap, and that of the poorest had to be provided by the kolchytes as a tribute to the king, to whom also they were obliged to pay a tax in linen from their looms.
The mere mummifyingof the body with the finest oils and essences, cloths, amulets, and cases, would cost a talent of silver, without the stone sarcophagus.
But the careful mummifying of the body became customary only in the third or fourth dynasty, and is therefore later than the theories that we have noticed.
He is figured as a mummy; and we know that full length burial and mummifying begin with the dynastic race.
This mode of mummifying resembles somewhat that already described as the process by which the Virginia kings were preserved from decomposition.
Following and in connection with cave burial, the subject of mummifying or embalming the dead may be taken up, as most specimens of the kind have generally been found in such repositories.
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