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 AGE OF THE XXVI. EGYPTIAN DYNASTY. 277 unrolling continued, they became blacker and still more so close to the body, where they were reduced to a mass of tinder. When the body, or actual flesh, was exposed, it pre- sented one black bituminous mass, having been prepared by the pitchy process, and resembled a fossil to be ehminated by the use of the chisel and the knife. The general pose of the body was that of being laid at full length, the legs close together, and the hands brought down to the groin, which they covered as if for decency. In looking for the flank incision at the left side, which we found, it was discovered high up and under the arm, and it was carefully sealed or closed Avitli a tin plate measuring four inches long by three inches wide. On the outside of this was incised, in outline, the symboHcal left eye. The object of the placing of this eye over the flank incision is alluded to in the 140th chapter of the Ritual^ called " The Book of what is to be done on the 30th of Mecheir, when the eye is full." The rubric of this chapter states that it refers to an eye of refined (?) tin {chesbet mamaka), the lid or section of which is washed with gold, and to a second eye of brass or jasper. Certain offerings had to be made before it, in order that the deceased might pass into the Boat of the Sun like the other gods. It will be seen that the whole of these amulets had reference to the condition of the deceased in her future state. Across the lower part of the breast was a thin strip of tin, about four inches long and an inch broad, on which was also engraved, in outline, the scarabaeus flying with expanded wings from beneath the elytra, and holding the signet-emblem of the circle or horizon of the sun between its hind legs. This was a substitute for the scarabccus of carved stone gilded, ordered to be placed on the heart according to the rubrical directions of the 30th chapter.^ In opening the stomach, which was so hardened by the bitumen that it required the use of a chisel and fine saw, the interior was found filled with clotted bituminous masses, on detaching one of which a piece of red wax, brilliant and fresh, was found inside. On removing it from the bituminous coating "with which it was siuTOunded, it exhibited the liead and shouldei's and part of the body of Hapi, the second of " Lepsius, Todtenbucli, Tuf. Ivii. In Horus t(i Osiris is, that he has " filled tlio tlio Ritual of Ni'fjiieni, in the Urilisli Kyc of lloi-us with oil." Musouin, one of the forty speeches of '' Loi'siiis, Todteiibuch, 'I'af. xvi.