Author: ROSSITER, EVELYN (commentaries by)
Title: THE BOOK OF THE DEAD - Famous Egyptian PAPYRI - Papyri of Ani / Hunefer / Anhaï.
Description: Fribourg / Genève, Productions Liber & Éditions Minerva, 1979. 1st edition. Hard bound with dustjacket, 28cmx22cm, Good condition. 'Miller Graphics'. In this book all the vignettes from the Papyri of Ani, Hunefer and Anhai are reproduced, for the first time in full color photographs. These 3 papyri rank among the most superb specimens of a collection of Egyptian funerary texts which, for the past 130 years, has been known by the little Book of the Dead. Contents: 1). The Egyptian Book of Dead: Reu Nu Pert Em Hru, or the chapters of coming forth by day. II). Pictural glossary. III). The Papyrus of Ani (c. 1420 B.C.). IV). The Papyrus of Hunefer (c. 1370 B.C.). V). The Papyrus of Anhaï (c. 100 B.C.). 121 illustrations in full color. 119 + (3) pag.

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