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Coffin Texts

Modern name for funerary texts of the Middle Kingdom (about 2025-1700 BC) found pre-eminently on the interior walls of coffins and burial chambers; the corpus derives in part from the Pyramid texts, and includes numerous texts included in the later corpus of funerary literature the Book of the Dead (Forman/Quirke1995: 183).

coffin fragment with texts, from Beni Hasan
wooden fragments with coffin texts
coffin fragments with coffin texts, unknown provenance
UC 59424, wooden fragments with coffin texts

Other coffins in Digital Egypt for Universities with coffin texts:

Forman/Quirke 1995: 67-109 (the coffin texts in the context of the Middle Kingdom (about 2025-1700 BC); with some translations)


 

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