ABSTRACT
This total of seventeen equals the eight ceremonies up to the 36th day and nine up to the 70th day mentioned above. Isis then orders the burial. Two hundred and six measures (kin) of fat are boiled for the embalming, as is done for the embalming of the sacred animals,2 and a mortuary priest, impersonating Horus, rubs the body over with balsam. Another priest (Shesmu) winds the bandages to complete investiture of the deceased in the bandages of the gods and goddesses. The embalmer, impersonating Anubis, fills the skull with medicaments and a further wrapping in bandages ensues. The corpse is then ready for his introduction to the next world, which is here expressed as meeting the winter sun.
