Caroline Tully wrote:
Thank you
very handy
makes a lot more sense than the every present Wallis Budge editions : )
Mogg Morgan
> Free Book of the Dead download.
>
> Subject: [agade] eBOOKS: Book of the Dead (OIP 82)
>
> > From Thomas Urban<[log in to unmask]>:
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>
> The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago announces the
> second out-of-print title to be digitally reprinted. The volume is
> also available for free download. Thomas G. Urban
>
> OIP 82. The Egyptian Book of the Dead: Documents in the Oriental
> Institute Museum at the University of Chicago. By Thomas George Allen.
> Chicago: The University of Chicago, 1960; The Oriental Institute,
> 2011, digital reprint. Pp. xxxiii + 289; 131 plates. ISBN
> 978-1-885923-80-6. $75.00
>
> http://oi.uchicago.edu/research/pubs/catalog/oip/oip82.html
>
> Hope for life after death is evidenced even in prehistoric times in
> Upper Egypt. The first written aids for attaining and supporting life
> in the hereafter were the Pyramid Texts inscribed within royal tombs
> toward the end of the Old Kingdom. In the Middle Kingdom, many texts
> were borrowed from the pyramid chambers and mingled with new spells;
> this new form, which today we call Coffin Texts, were usually written
> inside coffins. These eventually gave way to what we now know as the
> Book of the Dead. The collections of spells were usually written on
> rolls of papyrus, that is, in the form of an Egyptian book.
>
> Presented here are seventy Book of the Dead documents housed in the
> Oriental Institute Museum at the University of Chicago. These
> documents, represented in whole or in part - all Eighteenth Dynasty or
> later - include seven papyri, three coffins, a shroud, a statuette,
> three stelae or similar, and fifty-five ushabties.
>
> The book is available for purchase from the David Brown Book Company /
> Oxbow Books:
> <http://www.oxbowbooks.com>.
>
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