• Book of the Dead

Collections:
  • Digitized Manuscripts
  • Princeton Papyri Collections
Title:
  • Book of the Dead
Call number:
  • Princeton Papyri Collections Pharaonic Roll 5
  • Electronic Resource
Extent:
  • 4 fragments: papyrus; 599. 4 cm
Format:
  • Manuscript
  • Book
Description:
  • Ms. fragment
  • With polychrome illustrations. Owner is Iwt.nyr.syh (Iwtlsyh?), a name possibly of Semitic origin.
  • Includes chapters 84, 77, 86, 85, 88, 114, 38, 105, 31, and 125. The Book of the Dead spells show the following sequence: 1, 124, 83, 84, 77, 86, 85, 63b, 102, 26, 81a, 87, 72, 88, 136b, 116, 62, 38a, 105, 31, 24, 188, 125, plus fragmentary vignettes of spells 144/146 and 148 above the first few spells (124, 83, 84, 77).
Subject:
  • Manuscripts, (Papyri)
Title sort:
  • [Book of the Dead]
Alternative:
  • Princeton Papyri Collections (C0401), Princeton Pharaonic Roll 5.
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/ff3658534
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
References:
  • Barbara Lüscher, Der Totenbuch-Papyrus Princeton Pharaonic Roll 5, Beiträge zum Alten Ägypten, 2 (Basel: Orientverlag, 2008); Thomas Schneider, "The First Documented Occurence of the God Yahweh? (Book of the Dead, Princeton 'Roll 5')," Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions, vol. 7, no. 2 (2007), pp. 113-120.
Location:
  • HSVM Princeton Papyri Collections Pharaonic Roll 5
  • HSVM Electronic Resource
  • ELF1 Princeton Papyri Collections Pharaonic Roll 5
  • ELF1 Electronic Resource
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