The Book of the Dead: An English Translation of the Chapters, Hymns, Etc., of the Theban Recension, with Introduction, Notes, Etc.

ISBN-13: 9781138564909 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 988 str.

Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge

Opis

Egyptian hymns and religious texts form a representative collection of the various compositions which the Egyptian inscribed upon the walls of tombs and sarcophagi, coffins and funeral stelae, papyri and amulets, etc., in order to ensure the well-being of their dead in the world beyond the grave.

Spis treści

1. Here Begins the Chapters of Coming Forth by Day. 2. Of Coming Forth by Day and of Living After Death. 3. Another Chapter Like unto the Preceding. 4. Of Over Passing the Celestial Road of Re-stau. 5. Of Not Letting the Deceased Do Work in The Underworld. 6. Of Making the Shabti Figure to do Work. 7. Of Passing Through Amentet. 8. Of Coming Forth by Day Against Enemies in The Underworld. 9. Of Coming Forth by Against in The Underworld. 10. Of Going Into and of Coming Forth From The Underworld. 11. Of Entering Into and of Coming Forth From The Underworld. 12. Of Putting an End to Shame in the Heart of the God. 13. A Hymn of Praise to Ra At Rising.

O autorze

Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge was an English Egyptologist, Orientalist, and philologist who worked for the British Museum and published numerous works on the ancient Near East.