Budge, Ernest A. Wallis [Oth.]: The book of the dead: the Papyrus Ani in the British Museum ; the Egyptian text with interlinear transliteration and translation, a running translation, introd. etc. ([Text]) (London, 1895)

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PREFACE.

Egyptian sources the religious views of the wonderful people who more than
five thousand years ago proclaimed the resurrection of a spiritual body and the
immortality of the soul.

The passages which supply omissions, and vignettes which contain important
variations either in subject matter or arrangement, as well as supplementary texts
which appear in the appendixes, have been, as far as possible, drawn from other
contemporary papyri in the British Museum.

The second edition of the Facsimile has been executed by Mr. F. C. Price.

E. A. WAFFIS BUDGE.

British Museum.

January 25, 1895.