Herodotus Wrote:
* II:85. Their fashions of mourning and of burial are these: Whenever any household has lost a man who is of any regard amongst them, the whole number of women of that house forthwith plaster over their heads or even their faces with mud.
* II:85. Their fashions of mourning and of burial are these: Whenever any household has lost a man who is of any regard amongst them, the whole number of women of that house forthwith plaster over their heads or even their faces with mud.
Then
leaving the corpse within the house they go themselves to and fro about the city and
beat themselves, with their garments bound up by a girdle and their breasts
exposed, and with them go all the women who are related to the dead man, and on
the other side the men beat themselves, they too having their garments bound up
by a girdle; and when they have done this, they then convey the body to the
embalming.
Book
of the Dead
Read the entire article at Ancient Origins - and perhaps be glad you live in our times. Although women are known to still plaster their faces with mud; but for very different reasons - and usually at considerable cost.
*Herodotus, The
Landmark Herodotus (Quercus Publishing Plc, 2008)
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