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

coffin fragments with coffin texts, unknown provenance

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)