"Lars Wilson" <siaxa...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Here's a statement regarding the unique embalming process
#1. It wasn't all that unique.
#2. This was all explained to you back in 1996... July of 1996.
#3. The fact that you're raising it here again, effectively
pretending
that all the facts, all the answers you had previously been given
never existed, demonstrated your dishonesty.
You're promoting your literal-bible agenda here, and you're not the
least bit interested in facts.
Here's a cut-and-paste of the reply I posted to you in July of 2006:
A not-very-careful glancing at the other 18th dynasty
mummies would have revealed that resins were frequently
used, including in efforts to preserve the shape of some
body feature (the nose, as one example).
Amenhotep III was depicted late in life (presumably not too far
from death) as overweight. It's likely that, post-desiccation,
he would have resembled more of a dried prune than a human,
and required some efforts to restore/preserve his kingly shape.
It's a simple fact that if you desiccate the body of a fat person
the end result is something that looks like a giant scrotum.
That's because you've got all this skin that /was/ needed to
cover a big fat body, but little more than a skeletal frame to
actually cover.
Here's the URL to the thread this took place... a thread in which
a real Egyptologists -- not an obsessive compulsive bible thumper
like you -- explained things to you:
http://tinyurl.com/2q8stm
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.history.ancient-egypt/browse_frm/thread/31011288e1870a36/b67d45de13bbfc59?#b67d45de13bbfc59
Anyhow, please get some integrity. Thanks in advance.
using "resin" for
> Amenhotep III:
>
> The embalmers had packed the skin of the deceased king with a resinous
> material, and Smith's description of this as being "analogous" to
embalming
> techniques used in the 21'st Dynasty led Douglas Derry to question the
> identification of the mummy as being that of Amenhotep III. Edward
Wente,
> however, points out that the resinous material used here for packing was
> quite unlike the materials employed by 21'st Dynasty embalmers. Long
before
> the controversy regarding the identity of this mummy had arisen, Smith
> himself had noted (in the same re****t in RM that caused Derry's
> uncertainties) that the method of packing used in Nebmaatre-Amenhotep's
> mummy is altogether unique, and takes special care to distinguish it
from
> 21'st Dynasty practices which, he goes on to explain, utilized linen,
mud,
> sand, sawdust, or mixtures of fat and soda for packing materials, but
not
> resins. Therefore, there is nothing about this mummy that would point to
the
> 21'st Dynasty as the time of its original embalming.
> Smith expresses the interesting theory that the novel style of embalming
> used on the mummy of Amenhotep III (whose identity he doubts not in the
> least) was part of the general cultural revolution sweeping Egypt toward
the
> end of the 18'th Dynasty and which culminated during the reign of
Amenhotep
> IV-Akhenaten. That resin-packing was not employed during the 19'th and
20'th
> Dynasties is explainable in terms of the anti-Amarna reaction that set
in
> after Akhenaten's death.
>
> http://anubis4_2000.tripod.com/mummypages1/18B.htm)
>
> I'm still researching this, but apparently resin is used as a connector
and
> solidifier. As noted above the use of resin was unique to the embalming
of
> the body of Amenhotep III. But the question is why? What was unique
about
> the body of Amenhotep III which prompted the embalmers to use resin in
the
> embalming process under the skin?
>
> I think it would be safe to presume that there was "something uniquely
> wrong" with this particular body at the time it was embalmed, that is,
the
> body was already damaged at the time of embalming to require resin.
>
> My theory is, since we know Amenhotep III now was the pharoah who died
in
> the Red Sea, is that this probably had something to do with his perhaps
> having been dead in the water for an extended period of time. His skin
> might have been waterlogged and perhaps falling apart or perhaps
extremely
> wrinkled and the resin was used to help hold together the skin or smooth
it
> out or both. Maybe someone else can shed more light on this.
>
> Also of note, the age of the body as determined by x-ray estimation was
> about fifty years of age. So he didn't necessarily die of old age.
>
> L.W.
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