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

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3 Isis and Nephthys resurrect Osiris

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

5 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

6 Amduat text, showing division of the hours of the night

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9 Late coffin texts on mummy wrappings, Roman period

10 Late coffin text on mummy wrappings, Roman period

11 New Kingdom Amduat text

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

13 King Tut’s canopic jars

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15 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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17 Objects included with wrappings: Ankh Eye of Horus Heart Scarab

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19 Mummified head of young woman, ca. 100-120 CE, Found by Petrie at Hawara In 1888.

20 Mummified leg, late Roman period.

21 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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23 P.Mich Inv. 7018; cartonnage foot wrappings from Greek ms; 2nd cen BCE

24 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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26 A copy of Homer’s Iliad, from Tebtunis, ca. 200 BCE

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

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