Book of the Ded of Asety
The
manuscripts contains some chapters from the so-called “Book of the Dead”, a
compilation of several formulae aiming at the guidance, protection and
resurrection of the deceased in the Afterlife. After the embalming and
procession to the tomb, the body had to be preserved and the deceased was to be
protected, nourished and justified before the divine tribunal, to acquire
specific knowledge and to be able to transform himself. These are the themes of
the chapters written here in cursive-hieroglyphis and hieratic.
Third Intermediate Period (1076-664 BC)
Dynasty 21 (1076-944 BC)
Psusennes II (Titkheperure)
Thebes
Acquisition: Drovetti, Bernardino
Acquisition Date: 1824
col. 2-1: Said
by Osiris, Lord of Eternity, Foremost of the Wester, Unefer, Lord of Eternity.
col.
3-7: May he give offerings: food, libations and clothing to the osiris (of) the Lady of the House, Chantress of Amun-Ra, King of the gods, Asety, justified, justified, every day.
Giulia Nardella (GN)
Susanne Töpfer (ST)
cursive hieroglyphs, hieratic
Book of the Dead, Funerary text
adoration, spell 012, spell 013, spell 033, spell 037, spell 054, spell 055, spell 038, spell 056, spell 057, spell 058, spell 120, spell 121, spell 123, spell 132, spell 138, spell 187
Abydos (AbDw), West/Underworld (imn.t)
Third Intermediate Period (1076-664 BC)
Dynasty 21 (1076-944 BC)
Psusennes II (Titkheperure)
Yes
The deceased, carrying a curly wig with an oil cone and a flower on her head. She is dressed in a transparent garment, holding a vessel in her left hand ointment-vessel, while in her right hand she is holding a heset-vase over an offering table rich of food. Osiris, on the opposite side of the offering table, sits on a throne on a pedestal. He wears the atef-crown and holds the heqa-sceptre and the whip in his hands. His figure, drawn in a very subtle and minimalist line, is enriched by a simple necklace. A lotus flower bents in front of him over a libation vessel. The entire scene is enclosed by a black line and inscribed with seven columns of a cursive hieroglyphic text.
