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PENGUIN CLASSICS THE EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD ERNEST ALFRED THOMPSON WALLIS BUDGE (1857-1934) was Keeper of the Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities at the British Museum for thirty years. Knighted for services to the Museum, Budge travelled widely on its behalf throughout the Middle East, collecting an enormous number of antiquities and excavating at many sites in Egypt, the Sudan and in Iraq. Born of a poor Cornish family and something of a child prodigy, Budge had earlier worked as a runner at a London stationers for eight years, deciphering Assyrian cuneiform texts in his spare time, before finally obtaining a scholarship to Cambridge University and his long-dreamt-of employment at the British Museum. Working with an astonishing variety of ancient languages, Budge eventually published an unmatched 140 major works, many of them pioneering translations, dealing with texts and objects in the British Museum’s collections that he himself had found. Although his manner raised the ire of many of his colleagues, Budge was a vivid writer and a great popularizer – a man who, it was later said, had done ‘more than anyone to arouse an interest in the language and writings of ancient Egypt’. JOHN ROMER graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1966 and began his work in Middle Eastern archaeology shortly thereafter, serving on American and German expeditions in Egyptian Thebes and acting as Field Director of the Brooklyn Museum Theban Expedition, conducting the first physical survey and conservation studies in the Valley of the Kings, and excavating the tomb of Ramesses XI. Romer has also dedicated a great part of his time to archaeological conservation and, as an aid to raising public awareness of the importance and fragility of the past, has made many TV and radio documentaries, to international critical acclaim. Besides numerous specialist articles and reports, his books have included Valley of the Kings, Ancient Lives: The Story of the, Pharaolis’ Tombmakers, Testament: The Bible and History and The Seven Wonders of the World: A History of the Modern Imagination (with Elizabeth Romer). His latest book is The Great Pyramid: Ancient Egypt Revisited (2007). John and Elizabeth Romer live and work around the Mediterranean and the Middle East, and share a house in Tuscany. E. A. WALLIS BUDGE The Egyptian Book of the Dead With a new Introduction by JOHN ROMER PENGUIN BOOKS PENGUIN CLASSICS Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, USA Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4P 2Y3 (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.) Penguin Ireland, 25 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Ireland (a division of Penguin Books Ltd) Penguin Group (Australia), 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia (a division of Pearson Australia Group Pty Ltd) Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd, 11 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi – 110 017, India Penguin Group (NZ), 67 Apollo Drive, Rosedale, North Shore 0632, New Zealand (a division of Pearson New Zealand Ltd) Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, 24 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg 2196, South Africa Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England www.penguin.com First published in Great Britain as The Bank of Dead by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner 1899 One-volume revised edition published 1923 This edition first published in Penguin Classics 2008 1 New Introduction, Historical Outline and Further Reading copyright © John Romer. 2008 All rights reserved The moral right of the translator and editor has been asserted Except in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser 978-0-14-191815-0 CONTENTS ______________ Introduction to this Edition by John Romer Historical Outline Further Reading and Sources Preface by E. A. Wallis Budge to the 1909 Edition Introduction by E. A. Wallis Budge to the 1899 Edition 1. THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK OF THE DEAD 2. OSIRIS, THE GOD OF JUDGMENT, THE RESURRECTION, IMMORTALITY, THE ELYSIAN FIELDS, ETC 3. THE OBJECT AND CONTENTS OF THE BOOK OF THE DEAD HYMN TO RA AT RISING. From the Papyrus of Ani. With vignette HYMN TO RA¯ AT RISING. From the Papyrus of Qenna HYMN TO RA¯ AT RISING. From the Papyrus of Qenna HYMN TO RA¯ AT RISING. From the Papyrus of Hu-nefer HYMN TO RA¯ AT RISING. From the Papyrus of Nekht HYMN TO OSIRIS UN-NEFER. From the Papyrus of Ani TEXTS RELATING TO THE JUDGMENT. From the Papyrus of Ani. With vignettes THE EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD
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