Word: sarcophaguses
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...Imperial's sleepless rooms are a tight symposium of cubes and hexagons, an epidemic of shallow drawers, a rash of unpainted knobs, an aurora of burnished copper. The bed (in the room I occupied) was a grass-fed sarcophagus. . . . The capacious copper wash basin made me feel that I was usurping the rights of the turnips at a steam-table lunch counter, and the light was directed at such an angle that I could shave myself successfully only between the shoulder blades...
...concerned him most was the proper accouterments for his journey to the Land of the Dead. His Pharaoh, Psousennes, who ruled at Tanis, near present-day Port Said, had assigned him a burial chamber in the wall of his own royal tomb. But the next essential, a proper stone sarcophagus, was hard to find...
...death stepped closer, Unjebanenjebet was at last obliged to accept a hand-me-down: a roomy, elegant coffin of pink granite which had obviously belonged to a high priest of Amun. Then death came. Embalmers laid the General's linen-wrapped mummy in the secondhand sarcophagus, put the lid on, and built the coffin into its niche in the royal tomb...
Inside the sarcophagus lay Unjebanen-jebet's almost disintegrated mummy, swathed in golden chains. A golden mask covered his face. On his breast lay a jasper scarab with the inscription: "Do not betray me, O heart, on the day of judgment." Beside him, to aid him on his journey, were jeweled or golden images of his gods, and golden dishes, beautifully wrought. One dish showed a bas-relief of women swimming through lotus flowers...
Last week, General Unjebanenjebet and his secondhand sarcophagus were ready to follow Psousennes to the Cairo museum. His secret, hidden for 3,000 years...