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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In Egyptian archœol., a case of wood or cartonnage in which a mummy was inclosed, having as nearly as possible the shape of the mummy, and carved and painted so as to represent the dead person. The mummy-cases of the rich were often very elaborately painted and inlaid, and were inclosed in a second or outer case of wood, or a sarcophagus of stone, the latter being sometimes also of the form of the mummy, but more frequently rectangular. See cut in next column.
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“Since you are positive that the picture of the mummy is the picture of Kathulos -- and there is little room for fraud -- one of two things is practically certain: the Scorpion was never dead but ages ago was placed in that mummy-case and his life preserved in some manner, or else -- he was dead and has been brought to life!”
“Gordon and I watched them closely as they made their way to a large mummy-case which stood upright against the wall not far from the back.”
“At last, baffled, we returned to the mummy-case, which was certainly long enough to conceal even a man of Kathulos 'height.”
“Morley, narrating in another place the description of the mummy-case as jotted down by Von Lorfmon and passed on to Schuyler, mentions the fact that large portions of seaweed adhered to it -- seaweed of a kind found only at great depths, on the bottom of the ocean.”
“And search it we did, with the combined craft of a secret service expert and a denizen of the underworld -- while Hansen stood stolidly at his post, the two Negroes standing over the carved mummy-case watched us impassively and the Levantine sitting like a sphinx on his mat, puffing a fog of smoke into the air.”
“The man was standing with staring eyes; wide open, fish-shaped eyes, so motionless that they looked like the eyes painted on a mummy-case.”
“The chamber was square, with walls and ceiling of polished black marble and furnished after the manner of the ancient Stygians; there was a couch of ebony, covered with black velvet, and on a black stone dais lay a carven mummy-case.”
“Into this cavern came some of the same dark, wiry men who had borne the mummy-case.”
“But none looked aside from the mummy-case over which the man in the ermine-trimmed robe was now moving the great flaming jewel while he muttered an incantation that was old when Atlantis sank.”
“He was staring at the mummy-case, on which the countenance of the occupant was carved in ivory with the startling vividness of a forgotten art.”
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