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An ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead : the Papyrus of Sobekmose / translation, introduction, and commentary by Paul F. O'Rourke.
Uniform title
Book of the dead.
English.
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
[London] : Thames & Hudson ; New York, NY, United States : Brooklyn Museum, 2016.
©2016
Description
216 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
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Notes
Firestone Library - Stacks
PJ1555.E5 O76 2016
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Subject(s)
Incantations, Egyptian
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Death
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Future life
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Egyptian language
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Papyri
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Egypt
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Religion
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Book of the dead
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Papyrus of Sobekmose
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Brooklyn Museum
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Translator
O'Rourke, Paul F. (Egyptologist)
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O'Rourke, Paul F. (Egyptologist)
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Summary note
The Book of the Dead of Sobekmose', in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum, New York, is one of the most important surviving examples of the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead genre. Such papyrus scrolls were composed of traditional funerary texts, including magic spells, that were thought to assist a dead person on their journey into the afterlife. This publication is the first to offer a continuous English translation of a single, extensive, major text that can speak to us from beginning to end in the order in which it was composed. The papyrus itself is one of the longest of its kind to come down to us from the New Kingdom, a time when Egypt's international power and prosperity were at their peak. This new translation not only represents a great step forward in the study of these texts, but also grants modern readers a direct encounter with what can seem a remote and alien civilization. With language that is, in many places, unquestionably evocative and very beautiful, it offers a look into the mindset of the ancient Egyptians, highlighting their beliefs and anxieties about this world as well as the next.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-207).
Language note
Translated from the ancient Egyptian.
Contents
Foreword / Anne Pasternak
Preface: translating an ancient text
Introduction. The worlds of the living and the dead
The purpose of the book of the dead
Background and earlier traditions
The emergence of the book of the dead
New funerary texts
Other texts in the tomb complex
Book of the Dead of the gold worker of Amun Sobekmose. Description of the papyrus
Translation of the recto texts --Translation of the verso texts
Translation of the offering formulae
Notes on the translation
Reproduction of the papyrus. Recto
Verso
Reference list
Glossary of Egyptian terms and names
A brief chronology of Ancient Egypt
Picture information.
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Egyptian Book of the Dead : the Papyrus of Sobekmose
Papyrus of Sobekmose
Papyrus of Sobekmose.
ISBN
9780500051887 ((hardback))
0500051887 ((hardback))
LCCN
2016931263
OCLC
964071743
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