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Excerpt from Some Account of the Collection of Egyptian Antiquities in the Possession of Lady Meux, of Theobald's Park, Waltham Cross Thebes. The mummy and coffin of nes-amsu, the second prophet of the god Amsu, and prophet of the god Khonsu at Apu (the Panopolis of the Greeks, represented to day by the modern town of Akhmim in Upper Egypt), about b.c. 350; they were presented to Lady Meux in 1886 by the late Walter Ingram, Esq. The mummy is interesting as an example of a body carefully preserved by the use of bitumen; the coffin is a good specimen of the work of the funereal craftsman of that period, and its value is enhanced by its perfect condition. There is, moreover, every reason for believing that nes-amsa was an ancestor. Of Nekau, whose sepulchral stele is preserved in Lady Meux's Collection (see No. The designs and colouring and subject matter of the inscriptions recall the work of a much older period, and prove that, in spite of the corrupting inuences of the Greek and Persian civilizations, and the imposition of alien manners and customs upon Egypt, and the decay which was slowly. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.