...dead but at some distance beyond the limits of the village cemetry. The body is put into the grave with the head to the north, and the feet to the south, and reclining on the left side with the face to the east. A quantity of salt is put into the grave,...

...skeleton of an immense size, the skull very large, and the teeth all perfect. The skeleton was placed with the head to the north, and the feet to the south. A handsome but rudely ornamented red vase, of the capacity of three pints, was laid between die knees...

...action of the latter is so powerful, that very sensitive patients can only lie in one position, that with the head to the north and the feet to the south. Every other line is disagreeable to them, and in many cases, that from west to east is quite intolerable,...

...«i-*«f*"rf? (-^'rtS-.| '•'+iijf '*^ft ^iili- ' ft& "F> **• ^^ ^«S -^ i^ -^. the other two were lying with the head to the north and the feet to the south. The bodies had evidently been burned on the very spot on which each lay ; this was shown, as well by...

...three of them were lying with the head to the east, and the feet to the west ; the other two were lying with the head to the north and the feet to the south. The bodies had evidently been burned on the very spot on which each lay ; this was shown, as well by...

...sui . .ding it a finely preserved human skeleton was discovered. The body had been placed at length, with the head to the north and the feet to the south. The temple of this individual had been crushed in as if by a heavy blow from some blunt instrument,...

...three of them were lying with the head to the east, and the feet to the west ; the other two were lying with the head to the north, and the feet to the south." l The graves we have considered up to now have shown us that the interpretation of many of the ornaments...

...to the West. In a few instances, though the grave was cut in the usual direction, the body was laid with the head to the North and the feet to the South. The illustrations in pis. ii. — v. are not arranged according to any system of orientation. The proto-dynastic...

...person dies they put a copper coin in his mouth as a viaticum. The corpse is taken on a bier and buried with the head to the north and the feet to the south. When the grave is filled, they pour some wine on the ground, and they do the same at the house of the...

...commenced. The body is washed, the hair done, and the corpse laid in the northeast part of the house, with the head to the north, and the feet to the south. Should the mouth still be open, it is said that the recently departed relative is asking for money...