ABSTRACT
AMONG the reliefs that adorn the walls of his tomb-chapel at EI-Bersheh is one (see PI. XVIII) representing the dead 121}utQotpe being purified by his sons and other officiants l • When Mr Griffith and Professor Newberry's joint volume on this monument appeared in 1893, comparatively little ,vas known about the beliefs and usages of the ancient Egyptians with respect to purification. During the last year or so I have succeeded in collecting a considerable amount of information on that subject, owing to my having undertaken to ,vrite the article PURIFICATION, PURITY (Egyptian) for Dr Hastings' Encyclopaedia of Religion and I!)thics. I trust, therefore, that a new discussion of the above-mentioned relief will not be unacceptable to readers of this J our·nal.
