BOOK-OF-THE-DEAD
the reading room — every file of the seat, direct
provenance
edition · Richard Lepsius, Das Todtenbuch der Ägypter nach dem hieroglyphischen Papyrus in Turin (Leipzig: Wigand, 1842) — the Turin papyrus (Museo Egizio, cat. 1791), the Ptolemaic Book of the Dead in 165 chapters, Lepsius's numbering; Google copy; The Book of the Dead: facsimile of the Papyrus of Ani in the British Museum, edited by P. Le Page Renouf (London: British Museum, 1894; second edition) — 37 double facsimiles in colours; Getty Research Institute copy; E. A. Wallis Budge, The Papyrus of Ani: a reproduction in facsimile, edited with hieroglyphic transcript, translation and introduction, vol. 1 (London: Medici Society; New York: Putnam, 1913) — NYU Institute of Fine Arts copy; E. A. Wallis Budge, The Book of the Dead: the Chapters of Coming Forth by Day; the Egyptian text according to the Theban recension in hieroglyphic, edited from numerous papyri (London: Kegan Paul, 1898), vol. 1, The Egyptian Text; Édouard Naville, Das aegyptische Todtenbuch der XVIII. bis XX. Dynastie, aus verschiedenen Urkunden zusammengestellt (Berlin: Asher, 1886), Einleitung — the introduction to the critical edition; University of Toronto copy
license · payload: Public domain: the texts are of the New Kingdom and later. Lepsius (Leipzig, 1842), Renouf and Budge's facsimile of the Papyrus of Ani (British Museum, 1894), Budge's The Papyrus of Ani (1913), Budge's Book of the Dead: the Egyptian text according to the Theban recension (1898) and Naville's Das aegyptische Todtenbuch, Einleitung (Berlin, 1886) are public domain in the United States (published before 1931); Internet Archive scans. · record: CC-BY-4.0 applies to this seat record only.
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why seated · The book that went into the tomb with the dead: the spells for coming forth by day, the Weighing of the Heart before Osiris, and the Negative Confession, a first-person count of a stated domain ending in denials ("I have not …"), forty-two times. The archive's operator of the exhaustive negation has its oldest recited specimen here.