FEATURED ITEM: Egyptian Book of the Dead for Min-Her-Khetiu
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FEATURED ITEM: Egyptian Book of the Dead for Min-Her-Khetiu
This Egyptian Book of the Dead for Min-Her-Khetiu (as of 24 / February / 2017) is still available for sale from http://www.Baidun.com:
Reference: SC_EG_1001
Civilization: 18th Dynasty, c.1400 B.C.E.
Size: H. 14 x L. 33.2 cm and H. 15.5 x L. 88.8 cm
Condition: Fine condition
Price: Available upon request
Provenance: Baidun Collection
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Egyptian Book of the Dead for Min-Her-Khetiu
‘Book of the Dead’ is a modern term for a collection of magical spells that the Egyptians used to help them get into the afterlife. They imagined the afterlife as a kind of journey you had to make to get to paradise — but it was quite a hazardous journey so you’d need magical help along the way.
Featured here are two fragments of an Egyptian Book of the Dead written for the Royal sandal-bearer of Isis, Min-Her-Khetiu:
The smaller papyrus sheet includes the painted figures of a woman and the dead man, their hands raised in adoration. Between them a column of hieroglyphs gives the name and title of the owner. Seven columns of hieroglyphs in the center contain the opening of Chapter 7 headed ‘Chapter of Sailing in the Bark of Ra’. Above this an accompanying vignette of a shallow boat containing the falcon headed Ra crowned with solar disc and flanked by wedjat eyes to signify health and security. To the right four columns recounting part of Chapter 149,’The Fourteen Mounds’, the illustration above showing a pottery jar with liquid spilling from it.
The longer sheet carries thirty columns of Chapter 125 ‘The Declaration of Innocence’ with a scene showing standing figures of Anubis with the dead man to the left of a kneeling falcon headed god (Horus though he is labelled Thoth) supervising the weighing of the heart against Maat. Two seated gods above the scales represent the 42 gods who witness the judgement. Two of the three columns in the center are from Chapter 81a ‘Spell for becoming a lotus’ and on the right side of the sheet are ten columns from the beginning of Chapter 144 ‘Address to the Keepers of the Underworld’ with the paired figures of the horned guardian and reporter of each gate shown at the foot of the column.
Other fragments from the same scroll can be found in the Cairo Museum and the Papyrus Museum, Syracuse, Italy.
Provenance:
Previously Maurice Nahman, Cairo, acquired 1930s; The Schøyen Collection, Norway.
Exhibited:
Kon-Tiki Museet, Oslo, 2002–3
Published Literature:
Barbara Lüscher, ‘Der Totenbuch- Papyrus des Minherchetiu‘ in Studien zur Altägyptishen Kultur, Band 36, 2006.
Egyptian Book of the Dead for Min-Her-Khetiu
SHORT URL: http://www.goo.gl/bZiqyl
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