Motif
burial text accompanying the dead
burial_text_accompanying_the_dead
A motif of the Afterlife Navigation and Passage family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
egyptian
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The Book of the Dead The Book of the Dead / THE BOOK OF THE DEAD. / CHAPTER I; lines 66-108 confidence: high
The texts consist of spells, incantations, hymns, litanies, magical formulae, names, words of power, and prayers, and are found on pyramid and tomb walls, coffins, sarcophagi, and papyrus rolls.
The passage describes funerary texts on coffins, sarcophagi, tomb and pyramid walls, papyrus rolls, and rolls found with mummies or in coffins.
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