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Embalmment   Listen
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Embalmment  n.  The act of embalming. (R.)






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"Embalmment" Quotes from Famous Books



... religious symbols, in gold, jasper, amethyst; and in the 83rd case are some specimens of old Egyptian glass. The next six cases (84-89) are entirely devoted to sepulchral ornaments, including sepulchral tablets showing priests adoring the sun, scenes of the embalmment of the dead, and devotees adoring their favourite deities; pectoral plates; patches from the network outer coverings of mummies, including the popular scarabaei, wings, sceptres headed with, the lotus flower, and the crowns of upper and lower Egypt, all in porcelain—all ...
— How to See the British Museum in Four Visits • W. Blanchard Jerrold



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