Funerary practices (7 Subjects)
Lare's, beads, Amulets etc. found at Saccara.
Mourning at Greek cemetery.
The fortifications of the city of Rhodes with the Muslim cemetery seen from the northwest. Turkish women pray and give offerings to a tomb.
Turkish funeral in Istanbul.
Ottoman cemetery. Women offering libation.
Im. 1: (1 (Α, B, C, D, E): Shrew bones found in the Ibis burials at Saqqara catacombs, Egypt. Im. 2: Bone of rat from same burial. Im. 3 A, B: Butterfly of the Belenois Aurota species, from the coast of Syria. Im. 4 A, B: Butterfly of the Colotis fausta species from the coast of Syria. Im. 5 A, B: Leaden tablet bearing inscription in Greek, from Beirut. Im. 6, 7: Amulets in cylindrical shape made of red jasper (6) and serpentine (7) bought by Olivier in Sanliurfa.
Mummies from Giza, Egypt.