Egyptian funerary religion
Book of the Dead
Naville’s introduction stresses fragments from different places and the absence of a rigid order. Manuscripts vary in length and content, preserving different combinations of assistance for the dead. Tirard explains that the collection provides for varied needs, privileges, and dangers. Possession of appropriate words is represented as a means of gaining protection and divine assistance.
Also known as Coming Forth by Day
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Principal account
TraditionalNaville’s introduction stresses fragments from different places and the absence of a rigid order. Manuscripts vary in length and content, preserving different combinations of assistance for the dead.
Further detail
TraditionalTirard explains that the collection provides for varied needs, privileges, and dangers. Possession of appropriate words is represented as a means of gaining protection and divine assistance.
Context & interpretation
Tirard’s 1910 account interprets selected funerary texts and rituals through the scholarship of her period. Local cults and surviving manuscripts vary; her comparisons and proposed origins are not a modern Egyptological consensus.
Original passages
Source 1
The Book of the Dead
It is not in any way a complete workView withdrawn citation record
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Egyptian funerary religion; active reader leaf 12
Exact passage checked against active scan text and original-leaf mapping; scan line breaks normalised.
- Edition
- IMJ-0039-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0039-E001-P0012
- Original scan leaf
- 22
- Recorded leaf number
- 12
- Current Reader position
- Unavailable
- Reader verification
- Standalone editorial introduction by Edouard Naville
Source 2
The Book of the Dead
It was intended to serve all, not oneOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Egyptian funerary religion; active reader leaf 65
Exact passage checked against active scan text and original-leaf mapping; scan line breaks normalised.
- Edition
- IMJ-0039-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0039-E001-P0065
- Original scan leaf
- 75
- Recorded leaf number
- 65
- Current Reader position
- 59
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
- Location review
- Original scan location confirmed against the reviewed Reader mapping; the earlier recorded number is retained above.