The book of the dead / E. A. Wallis Budge.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Budge, E. A. Wallis, author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cleveland : Duke Classics, 2012.

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Summary:

The Book of the Dead is the title now commonly given to the great collection of funerary texts which the ancient Egyptian scribes composed for the benefit of the dead. These consist of spells and incantations, hymns and litanies, magical formulae and names, words of power and prayers, and they are found cut or painted on walls of pyramids and tombs, and painted on coffins and sarcophagi and rolls of papyri. This book is the treatise and analysis of The Book of the Dead , (also known as Spells of Coming and Forth by Day ), by Egyptologist E. A. Wallis Budge

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ISBN:

9781620117293

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