ABSTRACT
THE XXIST DYNASTY preserve the life-like appearance of their predecessors. It seems most probable that it was the contemplation of the shrunken and distorted forms of many of these mummies that impressed on the embalmers of the XXIst Dynasty the imperfections of their craft. We do know, at least, that immediately after the striking object-lesson afforded by the handling of these mummies of the XVIIIth, XIXth and XXth Dynasties, the embalmers of the XXIst Dynasty set to work to devise some means of restoring to the mummy the fulness of limb and features that it had possessed during life but had lost during the process of embalming.
