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QUEEN MÓO AND THE EGYPTIAN SPHINX.
were portraits of friends and relatives of the dead warrior. On this altar, placed at the door of the inner chamber, they were wont to make offerings to his manes, just as the Egyptians made oblations of fruits and flowers to the dead on altars erected at the entrance of the tombs.[1] From Papyrus IV., at
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the Bulaq Museum, we learn that the making of offerings to the dead was taught as a moral precept. "Bring offerings to thy father and thy mother who rest in the valley of the tombs; for he who gives these offerings is as acceptable to the gods as if they were brought to themselves. Often visit the dead, so that what thou dost for them, thy son may do for thee."[2]
- ↑ Sir Gardner Wilkinson, Manners and Customs of Ancient Egyptians, vol. iii., chap. xvi.
- ↑ Papyrus IV., Bulaq Museum. Translation by Messrs. Brugsch and E. de Rougfi. Published by Mariette.
