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CLAS-E 128: Death and the Afterlife in the Ancient World Death on the Nile Sept. 24th, 2007
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Isis and Nephthys resurrect Osiris
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Egyptian concepts of the soul: the body (khat) as corporate and dissoluble the ka the ba the sahu the khaibet the khu the sekhem
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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
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Amduat text, showing division of the hours of the night
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Late coffin texts on mummy wrappings, Roman period
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Late coffin text on mummy wrappings, Roman period
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New Kingdom Amduat text
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Steps of Mummification: Announcement of Death Embalming of body Removal of brain Drying out process Wrapping of Body Final Procession
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King Tut’s canopic jars
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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)
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Objects included with wrappings: Ankh Eye of Horus Heart Scarab
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Mummified head of young woman, ca. 100-120 CE, Found by Petrie at Hawara In 1888.
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Mummified leg, late Roman period.
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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?
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P.Mich Inv. 7018; cartonnage foot wrappings from Greek ms; 2nd cen BCE
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Crocodile and cat mummies, Ptolemaic period. From UC Berkeley excavations Under Grenfell and Hunt, 1899. Now in the Hearst Museum, Berkeley.
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A copy of Homer’s Iliad, from Tebtunis, ca. 200 BCE
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A copy of Sophocles’ lost play Inachus, from a mummy cartonnage discovered by Grenfell and Hunt, 1895, Tebtunis.
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