"This is the list of bodies belonging to Osorvaris:-- "Imouth, son of Petenefhotep, his wife and children; "Medledk, the carpenter, his wife and children; "Pipee, his wife and children, from Hermouth; "The father of Phratreou, the fuller; "Aplou, the son of Petenhefhotep the boatman, his wife and children, from Thebes; "Psenmouth, the carpenter, his wife and children; "Psenimonthis, the mason; "Amenoth, the cowherd." There are many more lists of the same kind. The above is cited from M. E. LE BLANT (_Tables égyptiennes à Inscriptions grecques_, p. 6, 1875, 8vo.). [Illustration: FIGS. 101, 102.--Scarabs. Louvre.] [Illustration: FIGS. 103, 104.--Funerary amulets. _Oudja_ and _ta_. Louvre.] But those who could procure even these slight advantages were still among the favourites of fortune. Many were unable to obtain even this minimum of funeral honours. On the confines of all the great cemeteries, at Thebes as well as at Memphis, corpses are found deposited in the loose sand two or three feet from the surface. Some of these are packed in the leaves of the palm, others are roughly enveloped in a few morsels of linen. They have been hastily dipped in a bath of natron, which has dirtied rather than embalmed them.[156] Sometimes even these slender precautions have been omitted. Bodies have been found in the earth without vestige of either coffin or linen swathes. The sand seems to have been intrusted with the work of drying them, and they have been found in our days in the condition of skeletons. [156] See in the interesting work of Mr. H. RHIND (_Thebes, its Tombs and their Tenants_, London, 1862, 8vo.), the chapter headed _A Burial-place of the Poor_. [Illustration: FIG. 105.--Pillow, Louvre.]