Budge, Ernest A. Wallis [Bearb.]: 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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INTRODUCTION.

Ani’s rank.

Ani’s wife.

Chapters C. and CVI., three copies, and of Chapter XVII. two extracts are given
in different parts of the papyrus.1

The papyrus of Ani is undated, and no facts are given in it concerning the
life of Ani, whereby it would be possible to fix its exact place in the series of the
illustrated papyri of the Theban period to which it belongs. His full titles are :—

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the lords of Thebes;

and he is said to be “ beloved of the lord of the North and South ”
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referred to cannot be stated. That Ani’s rank of “ royal scribe”2 was not titular
only is shown by the addition of the word “veritable,” and his office of scribe and
accountant of all the gods was probably one of the highest which a scribe could
hold.3 4 His other offices of “ governor of the granary of the lords of Abydos,”
and “ scribe of the sacred property of the lords of Thebes,” further prove his rank
and importance, for Abydos and Thebes were the most ancient and sacred cities of
Egypt. Ani’s wife Thuthu 1S described as “the lady of the house, the

qematet of Amen ” Aj /ww^jV.' Aj:1' What the title “lady of the house ”

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1 Naville, Einleitung, pp. 48-54. 3 See Brugsch, Aegyptologie, p. 223.

3 In the list of the high officers of the priesthood given by Brugsch (Aegypto'logie, p. 218), we meet

, “ the scribe set over the sacred property

of the gods ”; Ani held a similar appointment.

4 Plate 19; her name is nowhere else mentioned in the papyrus.

with an official whose title is

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