Book of the Dead

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Book_of_the_Dead

GPTKB entity

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Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:ancient_Egyptian_funerary_text
gptkbp:alternativeName	gptkb:The_Book_of_Coming_Forth_by_Day
gptkbp:associatedWith	gptkb:Anubis gptkb:Osiris gptkb:Ma'at
gptkbp:category	gptkb:literature gptkb:religion gptkb:mythology
gptkbp:commissionedBy	wealthy Egyptians
gptkbp:contains	prayers incantations spells
gptkbp:depicts	gptkb:Weighing_of_the_Heart_ceremony journey through Duat judgment before Osiris
gptkbp:earliestKnownDate	circa 1550 BCE
gptkbp:firstModernPublication	1842
gptkbp:housedIn	gptkb:British_Museum gptkb:Louvre_Museum gptkb:Egyptian_Museum,_Cairo
gptkbp:influenced	later funerary literature
gptkbp:influencedBy	gptkb:Egyptian_religion
gptkbp:language	gptkb:Egyptian
gptkbp:latestKnownDate	circa 50 BCE
gptkbp:mediaType	linen shroud papyrus scroll tomb wall
gptkbp:notableCollection	scribes
gptkbp:notableFor	gptkb:Papyrus_of_Ani gptkb:Papyrus_of_Hunefer gptkb:Papyrus_of_Nebseni
gptkbp:notableSpell	gptkb:Spell_17 gptkb:Spell_30B about 200 Spell 125 Spell 6
gptkbp:originatedIn	gptkb:Ancient_Egypt
gptkbp:predecessor	gptkb:Coffin_Texts gptkb:Pyramid_Texts
gptkbp:purpose	guide the dead through the afterlife
gptkbp:structure	individualized for each person
gptkbp:translatedInto	gptkb:Karl_Richard_Lepsius
gptkbp:usedFor	funerary rituals
gptkbp:writtenBy	hieroglyphs demotic script hieratic script
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Egyptian_mummies gptkb:Isis gptkb:Ancient_Egypt gptkb:Patricia_Cornwell gptkb:Ancient_Egyptian_mythology
gptkbp:bfsLayer	5
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Book of the Dead