 | Old Humphrey - London (England) - 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...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 - Egypt - 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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 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...staircase in the centre of the saloon, which communicated with a subterraneous passage, leading downwards, three hundred feet in length. At the end of this passage... | |
 | English literature - 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...before the first entrance. The sarcophagus was over a stair-r case in the centre of the saloon, which communicated with a subterraneous passage, leading... | |
 | 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) - Egypt - 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...staircase in the centre of the saloon, which communicated with a subterraneous passage, leading downwards, three hundred feet in length. At the end of this passage... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 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 - Egypt - 1831 - 514 pages
...represent, as I suppose, the whole of the funeral procession and ceremonies relating to the deceased. I cannot give an adequate idea of this beautiful and...digging before the first entrance."* The sarcophagus was placed over a staircase in the centre of the saloon, communicating with a subterraneous passage three... | |
 | Michael Russell - Egypt - 1831 - 536 pages
...represent, as I suppose, the whole of the funeral procession and ceremonies relating to the deceased. I cannot give an adequate idea of this beautiful and...digging before the first entrance."* The sarcophagus was placed over a staircase in the centre of the saloon, communicating with a subterraneous passage three... | |
 | Michael Russell - Egypt - 1831 - 376 pages
...represent, as I suppose, the whole of the funeral procession and ceremonies relating to the deceased. I cannot give an adequate idea of this beautiful and...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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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... 
