Going out in Daylight prt m hrw

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Going out in Daylight     prt m hrw
Author : Stephen Quirke
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Publisher : Golden House Publications
Language : English
Release Date : 31 May 2013
ISBN : 9781906137717
Pages : 641 pages
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First full illustrated translation with Egyptian transliteration, aiming to present with their individual histories all the compositions on prt m hrw "Book of the Dead" papyri from the New Kingdom to Ptolemaic Period. The volume gives at least one version of every written composition, together with one or more images for the essential pictorial component of all writings for which illustrations are known. Writings at the margins or outside the prt m hrw corpus, including all ascribed "Book of the Dead" numbers in Egyptological publications, are included in the final section. The translations are supported by a thematic and historical introduction and closing glossary.

Going out in Daylight     prt m hrw

First full illustrated translation with Egyptian transliteration, aiming to present with their individual histories all the compositions on prt m hrw "Book of the Dead" papyri from the New Kingdom to Ptolemaic Period. The volume gives at least one version of every written composition, together with one or more images

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