The Book of the DeadBudge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir
Religion
The Book of the Dead
Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir
Book of the dead; Death; Egypt -- Religion; Future life
Nos. 1-5 are bound in one volume, price £2 10s.
6. Collotype reproduction of the Papyrus of Queen Nesi-ta-nebt-ashru,
with full descriptions of the vignettes, translations, and
introduction, containing several illustrations, and 116 plates of
hieratic text. Large 4to. Price £2 10s.
FOOTNOTES
[1] See Journal de Trévoux, June, 1704; Caylus, Antiq. Egypt., tom. I,
plate 21; Denon, Travels, plates 136 and 137; and Description de
l'Égypte, tom. II, plate 64 ff.
[2] Copie Figurée d'un Rouleau de Papyrus trouvé à Thèbes dans un
tombeau des Rois. Paris, XIII-1805. This papyrus is nearly 30 feet
in length and was brought to Strassburg by a paymaster in Napoleon's
Army in Egypt called Poussielgue, who sold it to M. Cadet.
[3] [Hieroglyphs].
[4] The longest papyrus in the world is Papyrus Harris No. 1
(Brit. Mus. No. 9999); it measures 133 feet by 1 foot 4 1/2 inches.
[5] Pyramid of Pepi I, ll. 664 and 662.
[6] I.e., Truth, or Law, in a double aspect.
[7] A name of Osiris.
[8] I.e., the "Lord to the uttermost limit of everything," or God.
[9] He was according to one legend the firstborn son of Osiris.
[10] I.e., I have kept the Moral and Divine Law.
[11] I.e., the "Beneficent Being," a title of Osiris.
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