Qu’est-ce qu’un « Livre des Morts » ? Origine et évolution d’un recueil de textes funéraires

Silvia Einaudi

2024-01-01

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Abstract

The Book of the Dead had a long genesis, based in part on older texts that were part of two other corpora: The Pyramid Texts and The Coffin Texts. Starting mainly in the 18th dynasty, the Book of the Dead began to spread throughout Egypt, beginning in the Theban area. After centuries of use, this composition underwent a revision process that led to its ‘standardisation’, the product of which is known as the ‘Saite recension’. The Book of the Dead is attested as far back as the Roman era.