ABSTRACT
EGYPTIAN TEXTS RELATING TO EMBALMING
THE Egyptian texts relating to embalming are few in number. It is strange that a nation which has bequeathed to posterity such a large mass of docu-
ments on every variety of subject should have so little information to impart on the most characteristic and specialised feature of its elaborate funerary cult. It is true that the Pyramid Texts, the Cqffin Texts and the Book of the Dead are full of allusions to Osirian myth and to such rites as incense-burhing and lustration, which became inextricably interwoven therewith, and similar allusions occur in many mythological and magical texts. The following are all that are known to us as having any direct dealings with any part of the ceremonies of embalming.
