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Excerpt from The Funeral Tent of an Egyptian Queen: Printed in Colours, in Facsimile, From the Authors Drawings Taken at Boulak; Together With the Latest Information Regarding Other Monuments and Discoveries; With Translations of the Hieroglyphic Text and Explanatory Notices of the Various Emblems In translating the hieroglyphic texts on the tomb of Rameses I received valuable assistance from Dr. Wiedemann of Leipzig, who visited the tomb with me. Some of the other texts have been, with his usual kindness, revised by Dr. Birch. The translation of the long text on the right-hand wing of the canopy has been submitted by me to Maspero, and approved of by him as sufficiently accurate; the early part of it contains some difficult and doubtful characters. I may take this opportunity of acknowledging the able assistance I have received from the eminent firm of lithographers, Messrs. Vincent Brooks, Day Co., in placing the illustration of the Tent before the public printed in its original colours, as well as in the skill shown in the production of the other plates. At the end will be found a Table of Temperatures taken at Thebes most conscientiously thrice daily during five months, by J. D. Hutcheson, Esq., M.D., and kindly contributed by him to this work; and I have added my own Meteorological Observations for three months in various parts of the Nile valley, believing that these tables will be found useful by those who think of visiting Egypt as a winter health resort. 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, howeve