More glue - bah

[PMBardunias]

I am not sure how it works in original greek, but in english I think you may say that word "instead" suggest that Egyptians were doing lamination differently than methods known to author - with resign in place of glue. Then as the author is Greek, it may make us believe Greeks used linen laminate kept together with glue. What they used it for?

The relevent passage is this (When it is short, please quote it in the original message so we don't have to drag out Herodotus):

Herotodus 2.86[6] and when the seventy days have passed, they wash the body and wrap the whole of it in bandages of fine linen cloth, anointed with gum, which the Egyptians mostly use instead of glue;

I noticed this at first as well, but on reflection we have no idea what the "instead" refers to. Instead of glue for laminating linen? Instead of glue for laminating in general- greeks surely laminated wood to make shields for example. It is not a question of Greeks not having glue, so Herodotus is telling us that they mostly use gum instead. It would of course have been more useful if ol' Herodotus had written: "to protect the mummy, he is wrapped in layers of linen like those of a linothorax, but using gum instead of the glue we use."