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description of the vignettes, and a running translation; and in the Introduction an attempt has been made to illustrate from native {p. vi} Egyptian sources the religious views of the wonderful people who more than five thousand years ago proclaimed the resurrection of a spiritual body and the immortality of the soul. The passages which supply omissions, and vignettes which contain important variations either in subject matter or arrangement, as well as supplementary texts which appear in the appendixes, have been, as far as possible, drawn from other contemporary papyri in the British Museum. The second edition of the Facsimile has been executed by Mr. F. C. Price. BRITISH MUSEUM. January 25, 1895. PREFACE v. INTRODUCTION:-- CONTENTS. THE VERSIONS OF THE BOOK OF THE DEAD ix THE LEGEND OF OSIRIS xlviii THE DOCTRINE OF ETERNAL LIFE lv EGYPTIAN IDEAS OF GOD lxxxii THE ABODE OF THE BLESSED ci THE GODS OF THE BOOK OF THE DEAD cvii GEOGRAPHICAL AND MYTHOLOGICAL PLACES cxxxiii FUNERAL CEREMONIES cxxxviii THE PAPYRUS OF ANI cxlii TABLE OF CHAPTERS cliii THE HIEROGLYPHIC TEXT OF THE PAPYRUS OF ANI, WITH INTERLINEAR TRANSLITERATION AND WORD FOR WORD TRANSLATION 1-242 TRANSLATION 245-369 file:///I|/mythology/egypt/1/1.html (2 of 189) [01/25/2004 3:29:57 PM] E. A. WALLIS BUDGE.
BIBLIOGRAPHY 371-377 INTRODUCTION. THE VERSIONS OF THE BOOK OF THE DEAD. The four great Versions of the Book of the Dead. THE history of the great body of religious compositions which form the Book of Dead of the ancient Egyptians may conveniently be divided into four[1] of the periods, which are represented by four versions:-- 1. The version which was edited by the priests of the college of Annu (the On of the Bible, and the Heliopolis of the Greeks), and which was based upon a series of texts now lost, but which there is evidence to prove had passed through a series of revisions or editions as early as the period of the Vth dynasty. This version was, so far as we know, always written in hieroglyphics, and may be called the Heliopolitan version. It is known from five copies which are inscribed upon the walls of the chambers and passages in the pyramids[2] of kings of the Vth and VIth dynasties at Sakkâra;[3] and sections of it are found inscribed upon tombs, sarcophagi, coffins, stelæ and papyri from the XIth dynasty to about A.D. 200.[4] [1. See Naville, Todtenbuch (Einleitung), p. 39. 2. Hence known as the "pyramid texts." 3. I.e., Unâs, Tetâ, Pepi I., Mentu-em-sa-f, and Pepi II. Their pyramids were cleared out by MM. Mariette and Maspero during the years 1890-84, and the hieroglyphic texts were published, with a French translation, in Recueil de Travaux, t. iii-xiv., Paris, 1882-93. 4. In the XIth, XIIth, and XIIIth dynasties many monuments are inscribed with sections of the Unâs text. Thus lines 206-69 are found in hieroglyphics upon the coffin of Amamu (British Museum, No. 6654. See Birch, Egyptian Texts of the Earliest Period from the Coffin of Amamu, 1886. Plates XVII.-XX.); Il. 206-14 and 268-84 on the coffin of Apa-ankh, from Sakkâra (see Lepsius, Denkmäler, ii., Bl. 99 b; Maspero, Recueil, t. iii., pp. 200 and 214 ff.); Il. 206-10 {footnote page x.} and 268-89 on the coffin of Antef (see Lepsius, Denkmäler, ii., Bl. 145; Maspero, Recueil, t. iii., pp. 200, 214); line 206 on a coffin of Menthu-hetep at Berlin (see Lepsius, Aelteste Texte, Bl. 5); lines 269-94 on the sarcophagus of Heru-hetep (see Maspero, Mémoires, t, i., p. 144). A section is found on the walls of the tomb of Queen Neferu (see Maspero, Recueil, t. iii., p. 201 ff.; Mémoires, t. i., p. 134); other sections are found on the sarcophagus of Taka (see Lepsius, Denkmäler, ii., Bll. 147, 148; Maspero, Guide au Visiteur, p. 224, No. 1053; Mémoires, t. i., p. 134); lines 5-8 occur on the stele of Apa (see Ledrain, Monuments Égyptiens de la Bibl. Nationale, Paris, 1879, foll. 14, 15); lines 166 ff. are found on the stele of Nehi (see Mariette, Notice des Mon. à Boulaq, p. 190; Maspero, Recueil, t. iii., p. 195); and lines 576-83 on the coffin of Sebek-Aa (see Lepsius, Aelteste Texte, Bl. 37; Maspero, Recueil, t. iv., p. 68). In the XVIIIth dynasty line 169 was copied on a wall in the temple of Hatshepset at Dêr el-baharî (see Dümichen, Hist. Inschriften, Bll. 25-37; Maspero, Recueil, t. i., p. 195 ff.); and copies of lines 379-99 occur in the papyri of Mut-hetep (British Museum, No. 10,010) and Nefer-uten-f (Paris, No. 3092, See Naville, Todtenbuch, Bd. I., Bl. 197; Aeg. Zeitschrift, Bd. XXXII., p. 3; and Naville, Einleitung, pp. 39, 97). In the XXVIth dynasty we find texts of the Vth dynasty repeated on the walls of the tomb of Peta-Amen-apt, the chief kher-heb at Thebes (see Dümichen, Der Grabpalast des Patuamenap in der Thebanischen Nekropolis, Leipzig, 1884-85); and also upon the papyrus written for the lady Sais ###, about A.D. 200 (see Devéria, Catalogue des MSS. Égyptiens, Paris, 1874, p. 170 No. 3155). Signor Schiaparelli's words are:--"Esso è scritto in ieratico, di un tipo paleografico speciale: l' enorme abbondanza di segni espletivi, la frequenza di segni o quasi demotici o quasi geroglifici, la sottigliezza di tutti, e l'incertezza con cui sono tracciati, che rivela una mano più abituata a scrivere in file:///I|/mythology/egypt/1/1.html (3 of 189) [01/25/2004 3:29:57 PM]
Page 1: THE BOOK OF THE DEAD The Papyrus of
Page 5 and 6: apparently well-ascertained facts,
Page 7 and 8: The rubric on the coffin of Queen M
Page 9 and 10: 6 Among others, (1) ###, (2) ###, (
Page 11 and 12: 2. According to Diodorus, he died b
Page 13 and 14: dynasty.] {p. xxii} Evidence of the
Page 15 and 16: of Mycerinus; we have also seen fro
Page 17 and 18: 6. Stromata, VI., 4, 35, ed. Dindor
Page 19 and 20: never discovered his error although
Page 21 and 22: 2. Another title reads:--"The Chapt
Page 23 and 24: Chapter XXIV. The Chapter of bringi
Page 25 and 26: This Chapter has no vignette. Chapt
Page 27 and 28: Chapter LXVI. [The Chapter of] comi
Page 29 and 30: Vignette: A jackal. Chapter XCI. 'T
Page 31 and 32: Vignette: The deceased, holding a s
Page 33 and 34: Vignette: The deceased adoring Anpu
Page 35 and 36: Vignette: Two utchats, and a serpen
Page 37 and 38: Palæography. The version akin to w
Page 39 and 40: 2. I.e., ###. 3. See St. Matthew xi
Page 41 and 42: glorified shape, and to him who had
Page 43 and 44: 3. neb atebui; see Ani, pl. xix., 1
Page 45 and 46: 4. hetep Unas em anx em Amenta Sett
Page 47 and 48: {p. lix} divine body rested in Annu
Page 49 and 50: 4. ###. Chapter LXXXIX., 1. 6. 5. I
Page 51 and 52: with the ka, it partook of the fune
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maa-a ba-a xaibit-a May I look upon
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{p. lxx} certain passages in the py
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3. ###. See pyramid of Teta, (Recue
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kheru," that is to say, "he who rea
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Pepi, in the region of Saa. Thou co
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caldrons. (512) Unas hath eaten the
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He weigheth words, and, behold, God
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Verily a good son is of the gifts o
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The passages from the pyramid of Pe
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{p. xcii} unity of a supreme and se
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{p. xcv} it is not until the so-cal
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Tefnut;[2] and afterwards Seb the e
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THE ABODE OF THE BLESSED. The Egypt
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Sekhet-Hetep,[l] and was supposed t
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that he represented some form of th
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Seb, and placed it upon the steps w
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[1. A very interesting figure of th
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in carrying out rightly the work of
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Serq or Selk is a form of the godde
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[1. Recueil de Travaux, t. iii., p.
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eptiles; and of these the most impo
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THE PRINCIPAL GEOGRAPHICAL AND MYTH
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Set Amentet, i.e., "the mountain of
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nipples of the bosom of Horus have
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THE PAPYRUS OF ANI. General Descrip
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textual readings, the papyrus of An
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As with other ancient Theban papyri
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Chapter LXXXVIII. "The Chapter of c
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eyes; and the animal and vegetable
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and Maat beside him; may I grasp th
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PLATE II. Vignette I.: The disk of
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PLATE III. Vignette: Scene of the w
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{p. 258} Text: [Chapter XXXB.] Osir
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Behold, Osiris Ani saith: "O Lord o
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centre are a cow with her calf, cha
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ought unto thee the antelope, his h
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"One cometh unto thee for thy purif
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common title for the Book of the De
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{p. 274} mummy to go into the under
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2. See page 281, note i.] {p. 277}
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] {p. 279] Horus who protect the in
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2. Pierret renders, résurrection d
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(37) "Osiris Ani, the scribe of all
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(83) "Homage to you, O ye lords of
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others say), His name is "Heri-sep-
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of Osiris; [I have] embraced that w
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unto thee, O Osiris, who art cleans
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scrutiny, who cometh forth by night
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PLATE XIII. Vignettes (Upper regist
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§1. Vignette: The gods Ra, Osiris,
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One, and I sit on the eastern side
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forth." Vignette: Ani carrying a sa
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[1. See Naville, Todtenbuch, Bd. I.
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PLATE XVII. Vignette: Ani standing
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the dead and can do evil unto me-ma
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"(2) Homage to thee, O An in Antes
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peace (49) to make the hearts of th
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may make him powerful in heaven amo
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head the nemmes crown. (32) The dou
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of praise are sung in honour of my
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made bright. I have illumined the b
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WHEREIN HE SEETH THE FACES OF ALL T
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(30) "Hail, Lord of faces, who come
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north of the (20) field of the gras
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Vignette: The star Orion. Text: (20
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Osiris Un-nefer; and he shall trium
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illumined his sanctuary. I stand be
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of the god when he maketh his appea
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PLATE XXXVII. Vignette: A shrine wh
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