This spell, the most frequently copied of all major Egyptian funerary texts, equates the deceased’s passage from the tomb to daylight with the sun’s journey from night to day, a theme summarized in its title. Coffin Texts are written containing spells painted or engraved on the sarcophagus and coffins of Ancient Egypt.

--7. It originated in the Coffin Texts and was subsequently incorporated in their New Kingdom descendant, the so-called Book of the Dead… Texts of spells 787-1185. Coffin Texts Spell 148. The Coffin Texts (c. 2134-2040 BCE) are 1,185 spells, incantations, and other forms of religious writing inscribed on coffins to help the deceased navigate the afterlife.

SPELLS 38-40 OF THE COFFIN TEXTS By R. O. FAULKNER WHEN in Vol. Texts of spells 164-267. Spells 154–160 do not only constitute a unified composition because they describe the bas of different localities but also because they give a chronologically organized account of the events that happen during the course of a lunar month, from one --2. --3. The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 1971 57: 1, 14-19 Download Citation. Texts of spells 76-163. 1. Other Titles: Coffin texts.

The Coffin Texts, which basically superseded the Pyramid Text as magical funerary spells at the end of the Old Kingdom, are principally a Middle Kingdom phenomenon, though we may begin to find examples as early as the late Old Kingdom. They include the text known as the Book of Two Ways which is the first example of cosmography in ancient Egypt, providing maps of the afterlife and the best way to avoid dangers on one's way to paradise. They are partially derived from the earlier Pyramid Texts, reserved for royal use only, but contain substantial new material related to everyday desires, indicating a new target audience of common people. Mordechai Gilula.

35 of this Journal the late Professor A. de Buck published his translation of Coffin Text Spell 312 under the title 'The earliest version of Book of the Dead 78', he quoted in his introductory remarks a dictum of Sir Alan Gardiner: 'Scholars should not shrink from translating difficult texts. If you have the appropriate software installed, you can download article citation data to the citation manager of your choice. Texts of spells 472-786. Series Title: University of Chicago Oriental Institute publications, v. 34 etc. Texts of spells 355-471. --6. In effect, they democratized the afterlife, eliminating the royal exclusivity of the Pyramid Text. Simply select your manager software from the list below and click on download. --5. Responsibility: by Adriaan de Buck. COFFIN TEXTS SPELL 148 your father Osiris in this your name of Falcon who is on the battlements of the Mansion of Him-whose-name-is-Hidden, and I shall ask that36 you shall be in the suite of Rec-Akhety and in the prow of the primeval bark for ever and ever.' --4. Texts of spells 1-75. Following a short reprise of Spell 76 (Spell 79), this text continues the temporal theme first sounded in Spell 78 and expands it through the additional concepts of Life, identified with Shu, and the natural Order of the universe, associated with Tefnut. Texts of spells 268-354.