CLAS-E 128: Death and the Afterlife in the Ancient World Death on the Nile Sept. 24th, 2007

Isis and Nephthys resurrect Osiris

Egyptian concepts of the soul: the body (khat) as corporate and dissoluble the ka the ba the sahu the khaibet the khu the sekhem

Wooden grave marker from the Coptic cemetery of Lahun, Fayyum, 4thc. CE CLAS-E 128: Death and the Afterlife in the Ancient World Books of the Dead

Amduat text, showing division of the hours of the night

Late coffin texts on mummy wrappings, Roman period

Late coffin text on mummy wrappings, Roman period

New Kingdom Amduat text

Steps of Mummification: Announcement of Death Embalming of body Removal of brain Drying out process Wrapping of Body Final Procession

King Tut’s canopic jars

Reproductions of classic Canopic jars to 4 minor deities: The falcon-headed Qebhsenuef (intestines) The jackal-headed Duamutef (stomach) The baboon-headed Hapy (lungs) The human-headed Imsety (liver)

Objects included with wrappings: Ankh Eye of Horus Heart Scarab

Mummified head of young woman, ca CE, Found by Petrie at Hawara In 1888.

Mummified leg, late Roman period.

Wooden grave marker from the Coptic cemetery of Lahun, Fayyum, 4thc. CE CLAS-E 128: Death and the Afterlife in the Ancient World What good are mummies, anyway?

P.Mich Inv. 7018; cartonnage foot wrappings from Greek ms; 2nd cen BCE

Crocodile and cat mummies, Ptolemaic period. From UC Berkeley excavations Under Grenfell and Hunt, Now in the Hearst Museum, Berkeley.

A copy of Homer’s Iliad, from Tebtunis, ca. 200 BCE

A copy of Sophocles’ lost play Inachus, from a mummy cartonnage discovered by Grenfell and Hunt, 1895, Tebtunis.