 | Giovanni Battista Belzoni - 1820 - 566 pagine
...across the breast, but not pressing it; and though the body is bound with such a quantity of linen, the shape of the person is carefully preserved in...enamel, beautifully executed in imitation of nature. Among the various tombs, I discovered one of this description in the valley adjacent to Beban el Malook... | |
 | Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Mrs. Belzoni (Sarah) - 1822 - 486 pagine
...across the breast, but not pressing it ; and though the body is bound with such a quantity of linen, the shape of the person is carefully preserved in...enamel, beautifully executed, in imitation of nature. Among the various tombs, I discovered one of this description in the valley adjacent to Beban el Malook... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 pagine
...across the breast, but not pressing it ; and though the body is bound with such a quantity of linen, the shape of the person is carefully preserved in...enamel, beautifully executed in imitation of nature. * * * The dwelling-place of the natives is generally in the passages, between the first and second... | |
 | 1831 - 320 pagine
...across the breast, but not pressing it ; and, though the body is bound with such a quantity of linen, the shape of the person is carefully preserved in...enamel, beautifully executed in imitation of nature. Vases are sometimes found containing the embalmed entrails of the mummies. These are generally made... | |
 | George Long - 1836 - 466 pagine
...their arms and wrists. They are always found with the arms across the breast, but not pressing it; and the body is bound with such a quantity of linen, that...preserved — a circumstance that might naturally be expected,and one that is fully confirmed by all the specimens examined in Europe. Some, he adds, are... | |
 | George Long - 1836 - 468 pagine
...their arms and wrists. They are always found with the arms across the breast, but not pressing it; and the body is bound with such a quantity of linen, that...preserved — a circumstance that might naturally be expected,and one that is fully confirmed by all the specimens examined in Europe. Some, he adds, are... | |
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... the shape of the person is carefully preserved in every limb. The cases in which mummies of this sort are found are somewhat better executed ; and I have seen one that had the eyes and eyebrows of enamel, beautifully executed in imitation of nature. 