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Description : [MANUSCRIPTS] Ten Egyptian linen manuscript fragments, most apparently portions from different copies of the Egyptian Book of the Dead (or similar funerary texts). Late or (most likely) Ptolemaic period, i.e. a probable date of about 100 BC or slightly later. All fragments mounted to two sheets of card, both dated in ink Cairo, Egypt May 1891. Most are irregular in shape, the largest 4 1/4 x 8 inches (11.5 x 20.5 cm), that example with ten lines of text (about 300 characters), with the remains of a drawing at the head (partly cut away), in all, five of the specimens bear drawings. Some browned or stained, variously (but mostly) legible, though with losses to text and illustrations due to insect damage etc. There are annotations in red ink to the card by a modern scholar (provenance on request). According to E. Hornung The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife Cornell, 1999, demotic Books of the Dead and related mortuary texts are first noted in the late Ptolemaic period. He also notes Book of the Dead texts on linen can be found at both the early and the late phases of the Book of the Dead tradition. The illustrations in the texts are emblematic of standard mortuary spells, intended to guide the recently deceased away from perils (the circle of the sun and the fiery court, and the guardians of the gates of the hereafter) and to desirable destinations, such as the Field of Offerings, or the region of Rosetau [Giza] that contains the corpse of Osiris (whoever gazes on this cannot die). At the time these specimens were collected in the 1890s, such fragments were fairly commonplace, though now they are quite rare in commerce. C 
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