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Turin Book of the Dead Facsimile Edition

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Papyrus scroll of the saitic period (700-525 BC). The content of this papyrus is a funerary ritual on the wandering of the soul in the other world.

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Champollion called it Funerary ritual, before Lepsius gave it the current title, Book of the Dead.

Hieroglyphical red writing, in columns; black pictures are in the upper decoration; 6 main pictures are inserted within the text which is formed by 165 chapters. The text is the most complete one ever discovered.

We have 1 facsimile edition of the manuscript "Turin Book of the Dead": Libro dei Morti facsimile edition, published by Il Bulino, edizioni d'arte, 2007

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Libro dei Morti

Modena: Il Bulino, edizioni d'arte, 2007

  • Limited Edition: 10 copies
  • Full-size color reproduction of the entire original document, Turin Book of the Dead: the facsimile attempts to replicate the look-and-feel and physical features of the original document; pages are trimmed according to the original format; the binding might not be consistent with the current document binding.

The facsimile edition of 7 copies was commissioned by the Italian Ministry of Culture: the first copy was donated to the new Library of Alexandria, Egypt, by the Italian government; six copies were reserved for national and foreign institutions that cooperated to the edition; other three copies belong to the archives of the publisher.

The edition was digitally printed on a specific paper in 4 fragments that were then connected to each other.

Binding

Binding cloth that allowed to roll up the papyrus and preserve it in a special case.

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