Description

The Egyptian Book of the Dead
compiled by E. A. Wallis Budge
introduced by John Romer

The Book of the Dead is a unique collection of funerary texts from a wide variety of sources, dating from the fifteenth to the fourth century BC, consisting of spells, prayers and incantations intended to assist a dead person's journey through the Duat, or underworld, and into the afterlife. The papyruses were often left in sarcophagi for the dead to use as passports on their journey from burial, and were full of advice about the ferrymen, gods and kings they would meet on the way. Offering valuable insights into ancient Egypt, The Book of the Dead has also inspired a renewed fascination with the occult and ancient Egyptian notions of the afterlife in recent years.

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Table of Contents (abridged)

Introduction to this Edition by John Romer
Historical Outline
Further Reading and Sources

Preface by E. A. Wallis Budge to the 1909 Edition
Introduction by E. A. Wallis Budge to the 1899 Edition

1. The History of the Book of the Dead
2. Osiris, the god of Judgement, the Resurrection, Immortality, the Elysian Fields, etc,
3. The Object and Contents of the Book of the Dead

Hymn to Rā at Rising. From the Papyrus of Ani. With vignette
Hymn to Rā at Rising. From the Papyrus of Quenna
Hymn to Rā at Rising. From the Papyrus of Quenna
Hymn to Rā at Rising. From the Papyrus of Hu-nefer
Hymn to Rā at Rising. From the Papyrus of Nekht
Hymn to Osiris Un-nefer. From the Papyrus of Ani
Texts relating to the Judgement. From the Papyrus of Ani. With vignettes