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• Manuscripts (Papyri) [Browse]

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Notes

• Ms. fragment
• With polychrome illustrations. Owner is Iwt.nyr.syh (Iwtlsyh?), a name possibly of Semitic origin.
• Includes chapters 84, 77, 86, 85, 88, 114, 38, 105, 31, and 125. The Book of the Dead spells show the following sequence: 1, 124, 83, 84, 77, 86, 85, 63b, 102, 26, 81a, 87, 72, 88, 136b, 116, 62, 38a, 105, 31, 24, 188, 125, plus fragmentary vignettes of spells 144/146 and 148 above the first few spells (124, 83, 84, 77).

References

Barbara Lüscher, Der Totenbuch-Papyrus Princeton Pharaonic Roll 5, Beiträge zum Alten Ägypten, 2 (Basel: Orientverlag, 2008); Thomas Schneider, "The First Documented Occurence of the God Yahweh? (Book of the Dead, Princeton 'Roll 5')," Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions, vol. 7, no. 2 (2007), pp. 113-120.

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Princeton Papyri Collections (C0401), Princeton Pharaonic Roll 5.

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• Princeton Pharaonic Roll 5

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