 Roman who bad accidentally killed a cat When a cat died a natural death, all the inmates of the house shaved their eyebrows in token of mourning ; and, having embalmed the body, they buried it with great pomp. Those which died in the...  Manners and customs of the ancient Egyptians - Page 161de sir John Gardner Wilkinson - 1841Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | John Gardner Wilkinson - 1841 - 528 pages
...character of the dog, the respect it received was veiy remarkable ; for whenever one of those animals died a natural death, all the inmates of the house shaved their heads and their whole body *; and if any food, whether wine, corn, or any thing else, happened to be... | |
 | James Ewing Cooley - 1843 - 668 pages
...manners and customs of the ancient Egyptians. Mr. Wilkinson says, that " whenever one of these animals died a natural death, all the inmates of the house shaved their heads and their whole bodies ; and if any food, whether wine, corn, or any thing else, happened to... | |
 | John Relly Beard - 1847 - 660 pages
...from sacrificing to their vengeance an unfortunate Roman who bad accidentally killed a cat When a cat died a natural death, all the inmates of the house...embalmed the body, they buried it with great pomp. Those which died in the vicinity of Bubastis were sent to that city to repose within the precincts... | |
 | John Relly Beard - 1850 - 656 pages
...from sacrificing to their vengeance an unfortunate Roman who had accidentally killed a cat When a cat died a natural death, all the inmates of the house...embalmed the body, they buried it with great pomp. Those which died in the vicinily of Bubastis were sent to that city to repose within the precincts... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1856 - 754 pages
...sacrilicing to their vengeance an unfortunate lloman who had accidentally killed a cat. When a cat died a natural death, all the inmates of the house...embalmed the body, they buried it with great pomp. Those which died in the vicinity of Bubastis ;were sent to that city to repose within the precincts... | |
 | 1879 - 1248 pages
...from sacrificing to their vengeance an unfortunate Roman who had accidentally killed a cat When a cat died a natural death, all the inmates of the house...embalmed the body, they buried it with great pomp. Those which died in the vicinity of Buhasti3 were sent to that city to repose within the precincts... | |
 | William Houghton - 1879 - 276 pages
...honoured when dead. Herodotus speaks of the great concern which the Egyptians felt at the death of a cat : all the inmates of the house shaved their eyebrows in token of sorrow; but if we may judge from this shaving process, as being any criterion of the amount of mental... | |
 | Leonhard Schmitz - 1898 - 640 pages
...Greeks and Romans it was an object of ridicule. And who can wonder, when we are told that, when a cat died a natural death, all the inmates of the house shaved their eyebrows, and when a dog died, they cut away the hair from all parts of their bodies ! These sacred animals,... | |
 | William Ridgeway - 1931 - 788 pages
...widely, though the real home of the former cult was at Bubastis. " If a cat died in a private house by a natural death, all the inmates of the house shaved their eyebrows ; and on the death of a dog, they shaved the head and the whole of the body5." " The cats on their... | |
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