Nyord Rune:
Breathing Flesh
Conceptions Of The Body In The Ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts
Museum Tusculanum Press (Denmark), 2009
Hardback, 500 pages
Size: 270x210 mm
ISBN: 9788763526050
ISBN-10: 8763526050
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Breathing Flesh
The ancient "Egyptian Coffin Texts" form a corpus of ritual spells written on the inside of coffins from the Middle Kingdom (c. 2000-1650 BCE). This work offers an analysis of the conceptualisation of the human body and its individual parts in the ancient "Egyptian Coffin Texts".
