Daily Life – Burial Practices
Matthew Logel
Embalming
- The first step of embalming is to take a dead body to an ibu which means tent of purification.
- Next you will need to save up lots of linen to use in your mummification.
- Then use oils to make you smooth and sweet-smelling.
- You need priest wearing the mask of Anubis, the god of embalming, to act as a chief embalmer at your death.
Materials
- You will need a knife to cut your body open.
- They needed Natron salt to dry the body up.
- Also a hooked instrument will be used to take your brain out through your nose.
- You will need jars with different heads to store each organ.
- The human god Imesty for your liver, a head of the baboon Hapy to store your lungs, a jar with a jackal head of Duamutef to store the stomach, And the intestines go in a head with head of the falcon god Qebehsenuef.
People
- There is a priest who watches over the embalming and he wears a Jackal mask of the god Anubis.
- There are also embalmers who remove all the organs except the heart and dry the bodies with natron salt.
- There would be a high priest to oversee the embalming of a pharaoh but he would not appear for a regular embalming.
Types of Royalty
- Cheap means the body is injected with cedar oil, which makes its insides liquefy and drain out. Then it is dried out with natron salt.
- Mid-range means organs are removed and embalmed. The body is dried out by natron salt and then completely wrapped up in linen.
- Luxury means the same as mid-range but with a portrait mask that is made of cartonnage (a mix of plaster, linen, and resin) or even solid gold.
Citations:
- (Image).http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/funerary_practices/embalmers.htm.9/16/15.Web
- (Image).http://carlos.emory.edu/ODYSSEY/EGYPT/mastaba.html.9/16/15.Web
- Funerary Practices and Embalmershttp://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/funerary_practices/embalmers.htm.9/15/15.Web