The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts by R.O. Faulkner
A complete scholarly edition that presents the Old Kingdom funerary spells inscribed in royal tombs with facing English translations, transliterations and detailed philological and interpretive notes; it explains the ritual and mythological context of the texts, their vocabulary and variants, and their role in ideas of kingship, cosmology and the king’s rebirth, making this foundational corpus accessible to both students and specialists of ancient Egyptian religion and language.
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