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Original fileEgyptian Museum 17
This is a fragment of an ancient Egyptian papyrus scroll featuring dark ink line drawings of figures and hieroglyphs. On the left, a standing male figure with a shaved head, wearing a pleated kilt and collar, holds a small vessel from which smoke rises, facing a series of vertical hieroglyphic columns. To the right of the columns, a solar barque is depicted with multiple oars, carrying a central shrine or enclosure. Above the boat, a winged solar disc flanked by two Uraeus serpents hovers, symbolizing protection and the cyclical journey of the sun.
The scene derives from the Book of the Dead, a collection of funerary spells designed to assist the deceased's journey through the Duat (underworld). The iconography of the solar barque reflects the daily voyage of Ra and the ritual necessity of maintaining cosmic order through offerings.
Vertical columns of hieroglyphic text occupy the central and peripheral space, containing ritual invocations and offering formulae typically associated with the spells of the Book of the Dead.
Translation
General funerary formulae, likely excerpts from a spell regarding offerings and the journey of the soul, including titles of the deceased or deity invocations.
The Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani)
The iconography reflects standard vignettes found in funerary papyri of the New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period.
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