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 Sepulchral Architecture. 159 chamber at once.^ It was the frequent custom to put with the dead those pillows of wood or alabaster which the Egyptians seem Figs, ioi, 102. — Scarabs. Louvre. to have used from the most ancient times for the support of their heads in sleep. This contrivance, which does away with the Figs. 103, 104. — Funerary amulets. Oudja and ta. Louvre. necessity for continually rearranging their complicated head-dress, is still used by the Nubians and Abyssinians. 1 Upon the papyrus known as the Papyrus Casatt, mention is made of a priest who is charged to watch over a whole collection of mummies. " This is the list of bodies belonging to Osorvaris : — "Imouth, son of Petenefhotep, his wife and children ; " Medledk, the carpenter, his wife and children ; " Pipee, his wife and children, from Hermouth ; " The father of Phratreou, the fuller ; " Aplou, the son of Petenhefhotep the boatman, his wife and children, from Thebes ; " Psenmouth, the carpenter, his wife and children ; " Psenimonthis, the mason ; " Amenoth, the cowherd." There are many more lists of the same kind. The above is cited from M. E. Le Blant [Tables cgypticnnes a Inscriptions grecques^ p. 6, 1875, 8vo.).