The book of the dead : the hieroglyphic transcript and translation into English of the Papyrus of Ani / introduction by E.A. Wallis Budge

Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis) Sir (1857-1934)

ISBN 10: 0517122839 / ISBN 13: 9780517122839

Published by New York : Gramercy Books ; Avenel, N.J. : Distributed by Random House Value Pub., 1999

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Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xiv, 704 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Subjects; Incantations, Egyptian. Future life. Ancient Egypt; literature. Ancient Egypt; language. The Book of the Dead. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 361543

Bibliographic Details

Title: The book of the dead : the hieroglyphic ...

Publisher: New York : Gramercy Books ; Avenel, N.J. : Distributed by Random House Value Pub.

Publication Date: 1999

Binding: Hardcover

Edition: Reprint.

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Synopsis:

Including the Hieroglyphic Transcript and English Translation of the Papyrus of Ani
Fascinating compendium of ancient Egyptian mythology, religious beliefs and magical practices. Includes spells, incantations, hymns, magical formulas and prayers. All explained by one of the most knowledgeable and respected Egyptologists of the early 20th century. B&W illustrations, photographs and hieroglyphics throughout. 704 pages.

About the Author:

Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge (27 July 1857 – 23 November 1934) was an English Egyptologist, Orientalist, and philologist who worked for the British Museum and published numerous works on the ancient Near East. He made numerous trips to Egypt and the Sudan on behalf of the British Museum to buy antiquities, and helped it build its collection of cuneiform tablets, manuscripts, and papyri. He published many books on Egyptology, helping to bring the findings to larger audiences. In 1920 he was knighted for his service to Egyptology and the British Museum. E.A. Wallis Budge was born in 1857 in Bodmin, Cornwall, to Mary Ann Budge, a young woman whose father was a waiter in a Bodmin hotel. Budge's father has never been identified. Budge left Cornwall as a boy, and eventually came to live with his maternal aunt and grandmother in London. Budge became interested in languages before he was ten years old, but left school at the age of twelve in 1869 to work as a clerk at the retail firm of W.H. Smith, which sold books, stationery and related products. (It continues to do so.) In his spare time, he studied Hebrew and Syriac with the aid of a volunteer tutor named Charles Seeger. Budge became interested in learning the ancient Assyrian language in 1872, when he also began to spend time in the British Museum. Budge's tutor introduced him to the Keeper of Oriental Antiquities, the pioneer Egyptologist Samuel Birch, and Birch's assistant, the Assyriologist George Smith. Smith helped Budge occasionally with his Assyrian. Birch allowed the youth to study cuneiform tablets in his office and obtained books for him from the British Library of Middle Eastern travel and adventure, such as Sir Austen Henry Layard's Nineveh and Its Remains.