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Whensoever any one, Egyptian or foreigner, has lost his life by
falling a prey to a crocodile, or by drowning in the river, the law
compels the inhabitants of the city near which the body is cast up to
have it embalmed, and to bury it in one of the sacred repositories with
all possible magnificence. No one may touch the corpse, not even any
of the friends or relatives, but only the priests of the Nile, who
prepare it for burial with their own hands - regarding it as something
more than the mere body of a man - and themselves lay it in the tomb.
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