The Histories · 2.88

The third kind of embalming, by which are prepared the bodies of those who have less means, is as follows:—they cleanse out the belly with a purge and then keep the body for embalming during the seventy days, and at once after that they give it back to the bringers to carry away.

Herodotus of Halicarnassus · trans. G. C. Macaulay, 1890
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