TWO LARGE EGYPTIAN PAPYRUS FRAGMENTS FROM CHAPTER XCII OF THE BOOK OF THE DEAD, written in hieroglyphics in vertical columns
[northern Egypt, probably XXVIth Dynasty, c. 550 B.C.]
Fragment 1: 125 x 127mm, fragment 2: 104 x 147mm. 16 lines of small hieroglyphics, without rules, written in black ink from left to right on coarse dark papyrus, indicating a northern Egyptian, rather than Theban, localisation, fragment 1 beginning with Chapter XCII.5, with traces of the bottom of two previous columns, and continuing to XCII.16. Fragment 2 displays a variety of textual similarities to fragment 1 in columns 5-6.
'THE CHAPTER OF OPENING THE TOMB TO THE SOUL AND SHADOW OF A MAN, SO THAT HE MAY COME FORTH AND MAY GAIN POWER OVER HIS LEGS'. Khaib-t, or 'shade', otherwise found only in Chapter XCII of the Papyrus of Ani, appears here in both fragments.
TWO LARGE EGYPTIAN PAPYRUS FRAGMENTS FROM CHAPTER XCII OF THE BOOK OF THE DEAD, written in hieroglyphics in vertical columns
[northern Egypt, probably XXVIth Dynasty, c. 550 B.C.]
Fragment 1: 125 x 127mm, fragment 2: 104 x 147mm. 16 lines of small hieroglyphics, without rules, written in black ink from left to right on coarse dark papyrus, indicating a northern Egyptian, rather than Theban, localisation, fragment 1 beginning with Chapter XCII.5, with traces of the bottom of two previous columns, and continuing to XCII.16. Fragment 2 displays a variety of textual similarities to fragment 1 in columns 5-6.
'THE CHAPTER OF OPENING THE TOMB TO THE SOUL AND SHADOW OF A MAN, SO THAT HE MAY COME FORTH AND MAY GAIN POWER OVER HIS LEGS'. Khaib-t, or 'shade', otherwise found only in Chapter XCII of the Papyrus of Ani, appears here in both fragments.
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