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This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page. On the upper margins of the insides of such coffins there
offerings which under the Vth dynasty.html">dynasty were presented to the deceased
the Mouth" and the performance of the ceremonies of "The Liturgy
large rectangular coffins and sarcophagi fell somewhat into disuse,
HRU on rolls of papyri instead of on coffins. At first the texts were
and an attempt was made to illustrate each text.html">text by a vignette drawn
papyrus.html">Papyrus of Nebseni (Brit. Mus. No. 9900), which is 77 feet 7 1/2
XVIIIth dynasty scribes began to write the titles of the Chapters,
and it became customary to decorate the vignettes with colours, and to
Papyrus of Nu (Brit. Mus. No. 10477) which is 65 feet 3 1/2 inches in
were written.html">written.html">written by their owners for their own tombs, and in each roll both
however, the scribe.html">scribe wrote the text only, and a skilled artist was
out and left blank by the scribe. The finest example of this class.html">class of
in length and 1 foot 3 inches in breadth. In all papyri of this class
dynasties many papyri are written throughout in the hieratic character;
into the contents of the papyri, and the arrangement cf the texts and
of Amen-Ra, the "King of the Gods," felt it to be necessary to
and they added many prayers, litanies and hymns to the Sun-god to
on a roll of papyrus for funerary purposes. The greater number of the
the Papyrus of the Royal Mother Netchemet (Brit. Mus. No. 10541) and
is very defective and carelessly written, but the coloured. All is still licensed under the GNU FDL.
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