A guide to the Egyptian collections in the British MuseumBritish Museum. Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities
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A guide to the Egyptian collections in the British Museum
British Museum. Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities
Egypt -- Antiquities
=5.= The =Book of traversing Eternity= (_Shāti en sebebi ḥeḥ_
𓏛𓏏𓏭𓏤𓍼𓅂𓈖𓊃𓃀𓃀𓏭𓂻𓎛𓎛𓇳), a work in which the happiness of the blessed dead
is described, and an account given of a journey through the Other World
by the deceased, who visits the shrines of the gods, and takes part in
the services of praise which are performed there by the spirits and
souls, of the righteous, and enjoys the offerings which are made to them
by the faithful on earth (Papyrus No. 29, at Vienna).
=6.= The Book of =May my Name Flourish=,[16] a work which was very
popular in the Roman Period. It is, in reality, a development of a long
prayer which is found in the Pyramid Texts of the VIth dynasty. Its
object was to make the name of the deceased permanent in heaven and on
earth, for it was a common belief, from the earliest to the latest times,
that the man whose name was blotted out had no portion or existence in
the other world. A nameless soul possessed no identity, and could not
be introduced to Rā and the company of the gods. The British Museum
possesses several copies of this work, written generally on narrow strips
of papyrus, in a kind of hieratic, containing many demotic characters.
(Nos. 10,108, 10,111, 10,112, 10,109, etc.)
=7.= Another work which obtained some popularity in the late period is
the so-called =Ritual of Embalmment=. In this composition is given a
large number of the formulas that were recited over the unguents, spices,
and swathings during the process of embalming the body.
[Illustration: The ceremonies of “Opening the Mouth.”]
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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