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XVI. Account of the Unrolling of a Mummy at Florence, belonging to the Grand Duke of Tuscany, by Professor Migliarini. Translated from the Italian MS. of Professor Migliarini
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 January 2012
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In the month of September, 1827, the late Professor Rosellini, and the present highly talented director of the Belle Arti in the Uffizi at Florence, Professor Migliarini, were commanded by the Grand Duke of Tuscany to unroll a mummy which had been in the collection of the “Gabinetto di Fisica e Storia Naturale ” since the year 1824. This was done in the presence of a large number of spectators, and a very detailed account drawn up of it and drawings made on a large scale by Prof. Migliarini for His Royal Highness. As no notice of this interesting operation has been given to the world, the following details, taken from Prof. Migliarini's private notes, may not be unacceptable, in order that the peculiarities here exhibited may be compared with those observed in other mummies already unwrapped, or which may be hereafter brought to light.
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page 161 note 1234 The notes will be found at the close of the memoir.
page 162 note a In Tusc. Quest. § xlv.
page 164 note a Notes to Lucretius, 1647, pl. iv. fig. 2.
page 167 note a These ornaments have always been used by women in Asia on the ankles. The prophet Isaiah (chap. iii. 18), calls them 
. A·CH·aSIM, and in Arabic the real name is Khalfchal (see Meynoun and Leïla). In the Coptic versions the Egyptian name is not given, the Greek word being used, but it may be 
Memphitic ?
page 168 note a Relazione dell' Egitto, lib. 1, c. iv.
page 174 note a M. Chabas proposes “secret” as the meaning of shta, which agrees with this passage.