Book of the dead The book of the dead Text data (1 file : ca. 327 KB) deposited by McDonald, Peter British Museum London Oxford Text Archive Oxford
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ota@bodleian.ox.ac.uk 0595 0595 http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/0595 Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Title proper taken from Electronic text Books of the dead are Egyptian funerary texts and consist of spells, charms, and formulas to be said by the deceased during their journey to the Underworld. Such texts were originally inscribed in stone but later were written on papyrus and often contained illustrations. They were commissioned by the deceased before their death The first half of the text also contains descriptions of the images on the papyrus from which the depositor has made his transcription Modern translation, probably by the compiler himself Not recorded. When describing images from the original, the electronic transcriber occasionally makes reference to the Papyrus of Ani at the British Museum. It is unclear whether or not the electronic text is based on this particular papyrus. The order of the text is different from that of the celebrated translation by Sir E. Wallis Budge.

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University of Oxford Text Archive Subject Headings Library of Congress Subject Headings 1250 BCE English Ancient religious texts Fiction Myths and legends legacy Free for non-commercial use 2001-02-01 Webb, AntonHeader created in accordance with ISBD(ER) guidelines and validated in the TEI Lite DTD using XMetal 2.0

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