[55] For the foregoing particulars and some of the following, see Sir J. Gardner Wilkinson’s Ancient Egyptians.
[56] Ampère, Voyage en Egypte et Nubie.
[57] Thebes was indeed always considered as two cities. Homer makes it plural, and it has ever since been so—Thebæ.
[58] The Greek writer Diodorus Siculus says: ‘The Egyptians call their houses hostelries, since they can enjoy them for a brief space only; whereas their tombs are the eternal dwelling-places of the future.’
[59] For some parts of the description of the cities of Thebes, see Karl Oppel’s Land der Pyramiden.
[60] Ebers, in his Egyptian novel of the time of Rameses ii., Uarda.
[61] Addressed to the departed seer.
[62] I am not sure at how early a date the judgment scene is depicted in any existing funeral papyri; but I believe there is no doubt that neither that nor any ‘other world’ scene occurs in the tombs of the earlier dynasties, so far as they are yet known.
[63] Notice the similarity of thought underlying this myth and that of Osiris and Set.
[64] This idea of a sacred bark appears also in the form assigned to the sacred shrine, [p. 177].