Catalogue of the Books of the Dead in the British Museum
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The Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan in the British Museum preserves one of the most extensive collections outside Egypt of funerary papyri, among which the greatest number bear texts from the repertory known to the Ancient Egyptians as the Formulae for Going Forth by Day, and to modern scholarship as the Book of the Dead. These texts to secure eternal life for individual persons are first found written on papyri of the mid-18th dynasty, c.1450 BC, and the tradition survived until the 1st century BC, the beginning of the Roman period in Egypt. Several of the finest manuscripts were published in facsimile in the last century, but these editions are rarely available; with the present volume the Museum is continuing the publication of this important category of manuscript, rich in information on religious texts and iconography as well as in the history of manuscript production.The third volume in the series publishes the papyrus of Nebseni, an 18th dfynasty copyist from the Temple of
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Product code: cmc19564
Exhibition: Journey through the afterlife
Price category: £100 to £500
World culture: Ancient Egypt
Title: Catalogue of the Books of the Dead in the British Museum
Subtitle: Volume III: The Papyrun of Nebseni
Author: Gunther Lapp
ISBN: 9780714119564
Number of pages: 208
Size: 310x250mm
llustrations: 100 b/w
Weight: 1.41kg
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