A VALUABLE PAPYRUS.
THEBAN BOOK OF THE DEAD. By Telegraph.—Press Association. —Copyright. London, October 25. Mes. Mary Greenfield has given the British Museum an important papyrus, a magnificent copy of the Theban Book of the Dead, together with invocations and addresses and Hymns to Amen Ra. The papyrus is the longest in the world, except the Harriss papyrus, in the British Museum. The Book cf the Dead, was a collection of prayers and exorcisms composed at various periods for the benefit of the pilgrim 6oul on his journey through Amenti (the Egyptian Hades), and it was in order to provide him with a -safe conduct through the. perils of that terrible valley that copies of the work or portions of it were buried with the mummy in his tomb. Such copies hieroglyphic or hieratic according to the age when they were executed, and made some to order, others for sale, constitute fully one-half of the thousands of extant papyri. They are mostly corrupt and faulty.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14511, 27 October 1910, Page 5
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165A VALUABLE PAPYRUS. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14511, 27 October 1910, Page 5
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