History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, And Assyria, volume 9 (Of 12)
History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, And Assyria, volume 9 (Of 12)
Gaston Maspero
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* * Herodotus gives also a second account, which declares that Cambyses thus treated the body, not of Amasis, but of some unknown person whom he took for Amasis. The truth of the story is generally contested, for the deed would have been, as Herodotus himself remarks, contrary to Persian ideas about the sanctity of fire. I think that by his cruel treatment of the mummy, Cambyses wished to satisfy the hatred of the natives against the Greek-loving king, and so render himself more acceptable to t...hem. The destruction of the mummy entailing that of the soul, his act gave the Saitic population a satisfaction similar to that experienced by the refined cruelty of those who, a few centuries ago, killed their enemies when in a state of deadly sin, and so ensure not only their dismissal from this world, but also their condemnation in the next. [Illustration: 145. Jpg THE NAOPHOROS STATUETTE OF THE VATICAN] Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a photograph: the head and hands are a restoration of the eighteenth century, in the most inappropriate Gr
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