On cemetery burial, or sepulture, ancient and modern / by George Milner.
- Milner, George.
- Date:
- 1846
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: On cemetery burial, or sepulture, ancient and modern / by George Milner. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![tell us that the urn contained the ashes of a female, as distinctly as the flint arrow-heads in- dicate the character of the huntsman ; and the spear-head and battle-axe, that of the warrior. Combs in ivory and in wood. Tweezers and scissors in bronze/' are enumerated amongst other articles that have been found with the female mummies of p]gypt.* Several of the urns were made of clay, worked by hand, and simply dried in the sun ; these were ornamented by indentures of various fashions, made in the moist clay, or by figures drawn in a rude manner, with a pointed instru- ment ;—whilst others were of a more regular form, much harder in structure, from having apparently undergone the application of fire, (probably that of the funeral pile) and seemed in other respects more nearly to correspond with the coarser descriptions of Roman pottery. From the above circumstances, we are inclined to the opinion that these sepulchral urns may be reckoned as belonging to the Romanized British period; the absence of flint, or stone weapons, proves, according to the rules laid down by Sir R. C. Hoare, and few have given more atten- tion to these matters than that distinguished antiquary, that they belong to a later period * Pettigrew's History of Egyptian Mummies, p. 112](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22281186_0038.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
