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Dismantled coffin of Khety c. 1919–1800 BCE with Coffin Text spells painted on the inside panels. Coffin text 1130 is a speech by the sun god Ra, who says: Hail in peace! I repeat to you the good deeds which my own heart did for me from within the serpent-coil, in order to silence strife ...
They evolved over time, beginning with the Pyramid Texts in the Old Kingdom through the Coffin Texts of the Middle Kingdom and into several books, most famously the Book of the Dead, in the New Kingdom and later times.
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Although many spells from the earlier texts were carried over, the new coffin texts also had additional spells, along with slight changes made to make this new funerary text more fit for the nobility. [5] In the New Kingdom, the Coffin Texts became the Book of the Dead, or the Funeral Papyri, and they were used through the Late Kingdom. The ...
Illustration for spell 151 on a coffin, ca. 710–680 BC 151. Regarding the protection of the deceased in their tomb. This spell consists of a very large illustration, made up of a number of smaller images and texts, many of which derive from the older Coffin Texts. The purpose of this spell is to collect together the magical aids which were ...
The texts on the coffin box have different functions. Some of the spells are part of the modern corpus of Coffin Texts (on the coffin there are the coffin text spells 30, 31, 32, 609 and 345). Interestingly, the coffin is almost identical to the coffin of a certain Djefahapy that was found at Asyut. [6]
Coffin Texts Spell 1130: 7–8: All Men Created Equal in Opportunity: Book of the Dead: 1.18: Book of the Dead 175: 9–10: The Primeval Establishment of Order: Coffin Texts: 1.19: Coffin Text 157: 10: The Mythological Origin of Certain Unclean Animals: 1.21: The Repulsing of the Dragon: 11–12: The Repulsing of the Dragon: 1.22: The Legend of ...
First attested in English in 1380, [citation needed] the word coffin derives from the Old French cofin, from Latin cophinus, which means basket, [5] which is the latinisation of the Greek κόφινος (kophinos), basket. [6] The earliest attested form of the word is the Mycenaean Greek ko-pi-na, written in Linear B syllabic script. [7]