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Egyptian And Roman Burial Rites |
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Egyptian and Roman Burial Rites
Egyptian and Roman burial rites differ in many ways. In the
ways that they were buried. Egyptians were mostly mummified,
while Romans were buried in tombs. The people who had these
extravagant burials were mostly members of the upper class. There
is a special process that both, the Egyptians and Romans, went
through to bury a person.
When a noble or a family member of an Egyptian family died,
their body had to be prepared for burial. The dead body was taken
to the embalmer’s workshop. First it was eviscerated by means of
an incision in the abdomen. Then, it was dehydrated with dry
natron, or soda, and aromatic resins for seventy days. The body
was laid straight, hands folded on the chest, and bandaged. Over
the first layer of wrappings, funerary jewelry was laid. Further
bandaging, with the aid of linen pads to fill out the shape,
completed the mummy.
When a member of a Roman family died, they observed all
the properties before they were cremated. The covered the dead
body with leaves and fronted it with cypresses. Cremation was
stopped after AD 100, perhaps because of the spread of
Christianity.
After cremation was stopped, Romans turned to tombs. A
large Roman tomb was an earth mound surrounded by a ring of
masonry, rising to a considerable height. They also put dead
bodies in smaller tombs. These smaller tombs were usually
underground, though there is sometimes and upper story, built of
brick.
The Egyptian mortuary chapel was usually a pair of T with the
burial chamber beneath the end of a long hall. The transverse hall
in front was decorated with paintings displaying scenes from the
daily life of the dead body. The long corridor leading to the
entrance of the burial pit was normally reserved for funerary
scenes. In the chapel, there was rituals texts intended to ensure the
welfare of the body in the after life.
Frequently, the Egyptian tomb walls contained hierogl...Read entire document
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