 I cannot give an adequate idea of this beautiful and invaluable piece of antiquity, and can only say, that nothing has been brought into Europe from Egypt that can be compared with it. The cover was not there : it had been taken out, and broken into several...  The Family Library (Harper). - Page 1931842Full view - About this book
 | Old Humphrey - 1799 - 372 pages
...ceremonies relating SIB JOHN SOANE'S MUSEUM. 301 to the deceased, united with several emblems, etc. I cannot give an adequate idea of this beautiful and...which we found in digging before the first entrance." The cost of this unequalled sarcophagus was two thousand pounds ; but though it is so elaborately covered... | |
 | Giovanni Battista Belzoni - 1820 - 566 pages
...of the funeral procession and ceremonies relating to the deceased, united with several emblems, &c. I cannot give an adequate idea of this beautiful and...pieces, which we found in digging before the first entranr"0. T|V" sarcophagus was over a staircase in the centre of tne saloon, which communicated with... | |
 | 1821 - 602 pages
...of the funeral procession and ceremonies relating to the deceased, united with several emblems, £c. I cannot give an adequate idea of this beautiful and...which we found in digging before the first entrance. The sarcophagus was over a stair-r case in the centre of the saloon, which communicated with a subterraneous... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1821 - 602 pages
...of the funeral procession and ceremonies relating to the deceased, united with several emblems, &c. I cannot give an adequate idea of this beautiful and...which we found in digging before the first entrance. The sarcophagus was over a staircase in the centre of the saloon, which communicated with a subterraneous... | |
 | 1821 - 598 pages
...of the funeral procession and ceremonies relating to the deceased, united with several emblems, &c. I cannot give an adequate idea of this beautiful and...say that nothing has been brought into Europe from ligypt that can be compared with it. The cover was not there : it had been taken out, and broken into... | |
 | Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Mrs. Belzoni (Sarah) - 1822 - 486 pages
...of the funeral procession and ceremonies relating to the deceased, united with several emblems) &c. I cannot give an adequate idea of this beautiful and...which we found in digging before the first entrance. The sarcophagus was over a staircase in the centre of the saloon, which communicated with a subterraneous... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 809 pages
...sculptured within and without with several hundred figures, which do not exceed two inches in height. The cover was not there, it had been taken out and broken into several pieces, which were found in digging before the first entrance. The sarcophagus was over a staircase in the centre... | |
 | Michael Russell - 1831 - 536 pages
...attention, not having its equal in the world, and being such as we had no idea could exist. It is a sarcophagus of the finest oriental alabaster, nine...which we found in digging before the first entrance."* The sarcophagus was placed over a staircase in the centre of the saloon, communicating with a subterraneous... | |
 | Michael Russell - 1831 - 514 pages
...attention, not having its equal in the world, and being such as we had no idea could exist. It is a sarcophagus of the finest oriental alabaster, nine...which we found in digging before the first entrance."* The sarcophagus was placed over a staircase in the centre of the saloon, communicating with a subterraneous... | |
 | Michael Russell - 1831 - 376 pages
...alabaster, nine feet five inches long, and three feet seven inches wide. The thickness is only two inch«s, and it is transparent when a light is placed in the...there ; it had been taken out and broken into several pfeccs, which we found in digging before the first entrance."* * Belzoni's Narrative of Operations.... | |
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